Encouraging words for a friend going through a breakup

• “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
• “If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be.”
• “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” — Robert Holden
• “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”
• “Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”

• ”Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself, and the right people will like you.”
• “I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile.” — Lone Star
• “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — M. Kathleen Casey

• ”You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
• “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” — Ben Okri
• ”The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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• “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi
• “Love is what you were born with. Fear is what you learned here.” — Marianne Williamson
• “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling
• “Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan the flames.” — Rumi

• “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” — Chinese Proverb
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
• “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”
• “Pain is the person you never want to see. But without Pain, how would you recognize Joy?”
• “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
• “Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” ― Cheryl Strayed
• “Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.” — Karen Salmanson

• “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “If you went back and erased all the mistakes you’ve made, you erase yourself.”
• “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear. ― Pat Riley
• Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair. However you must keep smiling & moving on. ― Tom Jackson
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ― Henry David Thoreau

• If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ― Norman Vincent Peale
• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. ― Ayn Rand
• You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again. – Unknown
• Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
• Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ― Alexander Graham Bell

• If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. ― Mary Pickford
• Everything will be OK in the end, if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.
• ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be.
• Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go. – Sylvia Robinson
• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey

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• Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. – Deborah Reber
• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -E.M. Forster
• “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
• “One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
• “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” – Alex Elle

• “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
• “Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” – Marcia Wieder
• “Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.” – Anonymous
• “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sagan
• “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins
• “Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.” – Jack Kerouac
• “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us” – Alexander Graham Bell
• “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine

Heart Touching Breakup Quotes

• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
• “Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.” – Genevieve Rhode
• “In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn’t know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage.”
• “Ask yourself, who would Columbus be today if he hadn’t had the courage to lose sight of the shore back then?”

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• “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
• “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
• “The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.” – Anonymous

• “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E.M. Forster
• “Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos
• “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “The the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” – Nora Ephron

• “Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.” – Jennifer Salaiz
• “Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
• “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.” – Candace Bushnell
• “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
• “You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
• “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
• “And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.” ― Junot Díaz
• “Even on my weakest days, I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans

• “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder
• “It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.” ― Colleen Hoover
• “Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.” ― Coco J. Ginger
• “Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery” ― Judith McNaught
• “I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.” ― Suzanne Finnamore
• “If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.” — Jacki Wells Wunderlin
• “The easiest way to teach someone how to treat you is to refuse to give them more opportunities to hurt you. Walk away…” — R.H. Sin
• “Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.” — Joel Osteen

• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.
• When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. – Paulo Coelho
• “Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
• “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner

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• “I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.” – Paulo Coelho
• “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I am better than that. Goodbye!”— Steve Maraboli
• “You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.” — The Goddess Rebellion

• “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” – L. Ron Hubbard
• “Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.” – Jeff Ross
• “Don’t wait. If it’s not right, move on.” – Andy Lau
• “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain

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• “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia
• “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.” – Marian Keyes

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