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He Was The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me

There's a reason we're both here right now and reason things didn't work out. 
Kirsten Corley
December 19, 2016
“Sometimes what we want isn’t what’s best for us.”
— Abbi Glines, Simple Perfection
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Toxic Relationships, Healthy Love, Self-awareness, Desire, Lust
“The past is okay with me. Everything that brought me to this point is just fine. All of the things that felt so good and so horrible in the moment led me to this point, and it’s all a learning experience anyways, isn’t it?”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: goodbye, The Past, Leetting Go
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Tagged: goodbye, Thank You, Endings, Letting Go
“and in the end, letting
go was a lot like finding
love. i had to learn to
say goodbye to the one
who gave me the courage
to say hello.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Letting Go, Relationships, Courage When Things Go Wrong, Hello And Goodbye
“I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”
— Maggie Young, Just Another Number
Tagged: Toxic Half, Toxic Relationship, Toxic, Abuse, Deserve More
“The cost is self-destruction in the process. The cost is you hurting me to get there.

I can't sit here and wait for the respect I deserved this whole time. I can't sit here and wait to be loved, when I'm giving the best of myself. I can't sit here playing a game. It’s like a game of Jumanji. Either something is going to kill me along the way, or I’ll finish.

I don't have it in me to finish. And honestly, I think right now I'm living only half alive because of you. Cause you've chewed up and spit out everything I am. And I'm not the same person that I was before I fell in love with you.”
— Kirsten Corley, To My Toxic Half, This is my Final Bow and Last Goodbye
Tagged: Toxic Half, Toxic Relationship, Abuse, goodbye, Deserve More
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
— Robert Tew, 6 Reasons Why You Should Let Go of a Toxic Relationship
Tagged: Spilled Ink, Important, Health, Self-improvement, Growing Pains, Break Up, Relatioships, Toxic People, Self-Love, Pursuit of Happiness
“If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye,’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: Finding Love, Love Again, Letting Go, Break Up
“There's a reason that we're both here right now and a reason everything didn't work out. We're two sets of previous relationships at the same time. Every goodbye can be the start of something new maybe that starts with me and you.”
— Blake Shelton, Every Goodbye
Tagged: goodbye, Exes, Relationships
“She said goodbye with tears in her eyes not because she didn’t love him. But she knew love wasn’t supposed to hurt you this much.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”
— Garth Brooks, Unanswered Prayers
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Prayers
“Sometimes the blessing is not what God gives you but what he takes away.”
— Unknown, Blessings
Tagged: Blessed, Take Away
“I thank God for protecting me from what I thought I wanted and blessed me with what I didn't know I needed.”
— Unknown, Unanswered Prayers
Tagged: Blessed, Needs, Protect, God
“Sometimes God doesn't give you what you think you want, not because you don't deserve it but because you deserve something so much more.”
— Unknown, Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. @ Juxtapost.com
Tagged: God, Blessed, Deserve
“As bad as it was, as bad as it hurt, I thank God I didn’t get what I thought that I deserved. Sometimes life leads you down a different road. When you’re holding on to someone that you gotta let go. Someday you’ll see the reason why. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes, there’s good in goodbye.”
— Carrie Underwood, Good In Goodbye
Tagged: Unanswered Prayers, God, Blessed
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama, Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.- Tiny Buddha
Tagged: Good Luck, Wants, Needs