Breakups are painful and leave you feeling sad and empty. But instead of wallowing in despair, stress eating, and staying inside your room all day, muster up the courage to get back up on your feet. Here are nine quotes to inspire you to move on from that heart-breaking split.
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” – Jean-Yves Leloup
“Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.” – Harriet Evans
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” – Demi Lovato
“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.” – Jo Blackwell-Preston
“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.” – Andy Warhol
