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30 Quotes That Will Help You Cope When You're Facing An Unwelcome Ending

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30 Quotes That Will Help You Cope When You're Facing An Unwelcome Ending

Because the best things in life are also the hardest to leave behind.

You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to everything you really want to do for the last time, but don’t go have the last Scotch with Barney — have the first Scotch toasting Barney’s new life because that’s a good thing, and the good things will always be here waiting for you.

— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother

HIMYM Goodbyes Hellos Starting Over Moving On Letting Go

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Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Pain Suffering Healing Change Permanence Impermanence

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Love is not the last room: there are others
after it, the whole length of the corridor
that has no end.

— Yehuda Amichai, Near the Wall of a House

Love Relationships Breakups Starting Over Moving On

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Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.

— Greg Behrendt, It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken

Breakups Denial Facing Reality Moving On Closure Change

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You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.

— Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself.

It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go.

That's when it counts.

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Self-Concept Self-Esteem Change Overcoming Obstacles Challenges Rising To Challenges Motivating

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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.

— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept

Pain Loss Longing Love Grief Grieving Death Breakups Moving On

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You go on. You set one foot in front of the other and if a thin voice cries out somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear and keep going.

— Geraldine Brooks, March

Moving On Moving Forward Life Change Pain Grief Loss

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Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

Sadness Desire Moving On Moving Forward Grief Loss

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But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

Future Rebuilding Your Life Life Change

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Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

Love Change Endings Relationships Moving On Breaking Up

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Hearts don’t break,
y’all,
they bruise and get better.
We were never tragedies.
We were emergencies.
You call 9 – 1 – 1.
Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.

— Buddy Wakefield, We Were Emergencies

Heartbreak Healing Love Broken Hearts Redemption

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Hearts don’t break,
y’all,
they bruise and get better.
We were never tragedies.
We were emergencies.
You call 9 – 1 – 1.
Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.

— Buddy Wakefield, We Were Emergencies

Heartbreak Healing Love Broken Hearts Redemption

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Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Letting Go Change Starting Over Consequence Blame Empowering Self-Direction Fate

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You live out the confusions until they become clear.

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin

Confusion Life Challenges Change Navigating Change Uncertainty Leaning Into Uncertainty

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You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted.
Begin again the story of your life.

— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives Of The Heart

Life Starting Over Change Personal Growth New Beginning Failure Growth

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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Loss Pain Leaving New Beginnings Starting Over Endings Saying Goodbye Goodbyes Change

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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

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We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

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Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.

— Kait Rokowski, It just ends

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Go, even though there is nowhere to go. Go, even though you don't know exactly why you can't stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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Like falling for someone, sometimes falling away from someone takes time. And I think that’s okay. But slowly, too slowly, I will convince myself that I deserve better. Slowly, I will pick up myself and move on. Slowly, I will look forward to the day when I finally ignore your texts, your tweets, and you.

— Jacob Geers, I Can’t Wait Until The Day I Finally Stop Texting You Back

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It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

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There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.

— Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me

Starting Over Moving On New Old Beginnings Endings

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Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, they tell me, not the end.

— Lang Leav, Collision

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Do you know there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate that transition, Jeanno, between farewell and new departure. Give yourself the time you need. Some thresholds are too wide to be taken in one stride.

— Nine George, The Little Paris Bookshop

Starting Over Patience Goodbyes Hellos Endings New Beginnings

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There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.

— C.S. Lewis, Letters To An American Lady

Change Optimism The future Moving Forward Embracing Change Hope

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