Healing after heartbreak and divorce takes a lot of resources.  It is a time of much needed support from all avenues.  Leaning on friends and family, participating in online or in-person support groups, reading inspirational and spiritual books, practicing radical self-care.  It takes a lot to heal on a level that you show up differently in your life.  When you take the time to heal, you show up as the person you were truly meant to be. 

Because healing from heartbreak is a golden opportunity to heal old limiting beliefs and patterns that are still running behind the scenes in your subconscious.  These beliefs and patterns are what keep you recreating similar circumstances in your life. 

But sometimes we just need a quick shot of inspiration or encouragement. 

Below is a collection of quotes that have helped me remember hope for my future when I was in the darkest place. 

  • We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for you. -Joseph Campbell
  • Major life events are profound opportunities for emotional healing and spiritual development. -Daphne Rose Kingma
  • I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. -Anne Frank
  • Change takes but an instant. It’s the resistance to change that can take a lifetime. -Hebrew Proverb
  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -C.S. Lewis
  • Divorce isn’t such a tragedy.  A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love.  Nobody ever died of divorce. -Jennifer Weiner
  • I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. -Alana Stewart
  • Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. -Nora Ephron
  • Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go. -Unknown
  • God says: The reason some people have turned against you and walked away from you without reason has nothing to do with you. It is because I have removed them from your life because they cannot go where I am taking you next.  They will only hinder you in your next level because they have already served their purpose in your life.  Let them go and keep moving.  Greater is coming. -Anonymous
  • Take deep breaths occasionally to remind yourself that it is your lungs that are keeping you alive and not the person you have managed to snag yourself on.  Untie yourself from the last words spoken from their holy lips and realize that some doors are only meant to be exits. -Unknown
  • Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. -Socrates
  • In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. -Deepak Chopra
  • Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. -Lucille Ball
  • I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am.  I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. -Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did.  Take a moment to appreciate your strength. -Karen Salmanson
  • Don’t be afraid to start over.  It’s a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you truly want. -Unknown
  • I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.  -Brene Brown
  • When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor Frankl
  • You cannot start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. -Michael McMillan
  • Just because I didn’t have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn’t mean they couldn’t happen.  Just because plan A didn’t work out didn’t mean plan B couldn’t be really kickass.  In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn’t be completely wonderful? –Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom
  • Divorce isn’t the child’s fault.  Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to your child, because you are really just hurting the child.  -Valerie Bertinelli
  • Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. -Lily Tomlin
  • It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot
  • The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss and have found their way out of the depths. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
  • What lies behind you and what lies before you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. -J.K. Rowling
  • It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way-cracks you open to feeling.  When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. -Jennifer Aniston
  • You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn’t contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then it should stay out.”― Jen Grice, You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey
  • A break up is just part of one’s life-it is not one’s whole life. –Karen Salmansohn
  • Love yourself…enough to take the actions required for your happiness…enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past…enough to set a high standard for relationships…enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner…enough to forgive yourself…enough to move on.  -Steve Maraboli
  • My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; but to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.  -Maya Angelou
  • I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family’s legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us. -Kristin Armstrong
  • Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes.  In order to be fee, we must learn how to let go.  Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain.  The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.  What is it you would let go of today?  -Mary Manin Morrissey
  • I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle.  I just wish he didn’t trust me so much. -Mother Theresa
  • I hate when people think you’re broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids.  If they’re growing up in a house that’s not healthy, it’s better to know that’s not the model of what marriage should be.  -Anna Kendrick
  • One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. -Mandy Hale
  • No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. -Regina Brett
  • The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. -Mohadesa Najumi
  • Nothing in the Universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. -Guy Finley
  • Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. -Mary Anne Radmacher
  • And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin

Wishing you so much love,