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26 Quotes That Prove You Shouldn't Go Back To What Broke You

My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self loving. 
Jane Drinkard
August 8, 2016
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Self-Love
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Break, broken, Heartbroken
“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, Imperfection
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
— Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken wings, fly
“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Tagged: Don't Go Back, beauty, shattered, character
“My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.”
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Truth
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths, The)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, walk away
“I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”
— Oprah Winfrey
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Want
“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love, Inner Voice
“She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.”
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire(Millennium Series)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Feeling
“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.”
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Infinite
“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Heartbroken
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Acceptance
“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
— Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, rainbow
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free: Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
— James Baldwin, James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Gorl
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Starting Over
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.

My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
— Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough
Tagged: Don't Go Back, love myself, Self-Love
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love, Self-Love
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Tagged: Don't Go Back, forward, Progress
“Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”
— Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking: Book One of the Pendragon's Banner Trilogy (Pendragon's Banner Trilogy; Bk. 1)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Change
“Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.”
— Zena Wynn, Beyond the Breaking Point
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Past, forward
“I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”
— Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight: Book Three Of The Timely Death Trilogy
Tagged: Don't Go Back, The Past, Future
“There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count.”
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles, Book 5)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, forward
“You are hatching from the past.”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel
Tagged: Don't Go Back, The Past
“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.”
— Jack London, Jack London : Novels and Stories : Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories (Library of America)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Life