Getting Over Someone: The Dharma King
What kind of fear is it? Is it fear of poverty, of loneliness, of rejection? Then use common sense. Don’t let the fear get infected. Often we burn 70 percent of our emotional energy on what we fear might happen (90 percent of which won’t happen). By devoting our energy to our other emotions, we will heal naturally.
Interview with Za Rinpoche, the Dharma King, Tibetan Spiritual Leader from the book: What should I do with my life?
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Inspirational Quote: Bette Davis
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis
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Ali MacGraw: I was an atrocious partner
I was an atrocious partner. I had no room for compromise and most importantly I never told anybody who I was. I wanted them to read my mind.
Ali MacGraw
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Ali MacGraw
Real Life Breakup Quotes: I got really strict…
I got really strict – every time I thought ‘you’re useless,’ I’d stop and breathe and replace it with ‘you’re fine, it’s going to be fine.’
Jody – after the end of her 18 month relationship affected her confidence
Quote from an interview in The Smart Woman’s Breakup Book – 7 Steps to Breaking Free
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Breakup Quotes: Everyday People
I should have known he was no good.
Alicia – after a 2-year relationship that ended with him cheating on her
I saw our relationship like a room filled with a balloon – more and more
it was filled with him, and I was just pressed up against the wall.
Sally – after ending a 6-month engagement with a narcissist
This was the worst breakup in the history of my breakups.
Kate – after being broken up with by email on Valentine’s Day
We just don’t want the drama. If you breakup with me, then you won’t get as emotional.
Rick – on why men make women breakup with them.
I know he wanted me to breakup with him. I wanted to hear him say it though, that’s why I pushed it.
Cathy – after a 3-month passionate relationship ended when he stopped calling
It started with a one-word text on his phone.
Sam on finding out her boyfriend was cheating
Of course I was shocked and angry, but in my heart I knew he wasn’t the man for me anymore.
Cara on the breakup of her 16-year relationship after he falls in love with a prostitute
I got really strict – every time I thought ‘you’re useless,’ I’d stop and breathe and replace it with ‘you’re fine, it’s going to be fine.’
Jody – after the end of her 18 month relationship affected her confidence
If he’s really missing you, he could also think of a million excuses to contact you. You just look like a stalker, a desperate woman and that’s not attractive.
Andrea – giving advice about going no contact after getting through her divorce
It was a relief when she left me alone.
Peter – on being stalked
I wish it was different, but I deserve better.
Cathy – on letting go
I want to extract myself from an abusive relationship with this person.
Sally – during relationship counseling
He was a controlling alcoholic bastard.
Louise – describing her ex
I can’t believe he broke up with me at a restaurant!
Rachel – after her boyfriend of 5 years broke up with her
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Read MoreInspirational Quotes: After a Breakup
Adventure is worthwhile in itself
Amelia Earhart
If I observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.
Hilary Rodham Clinton
Girls got balls. They’re just a little higher up, that’s all.
Joan Jett
Too many people seem to think life is a spectator sport.
Katharine Hepburn
You have to be patient. I’m not
Madonna
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janice Joplin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we’d be millionaires.
Abigail ‘Dear Abby’ van Buren
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
P. D. James
It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
Mark Twain
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
Jodie Foster
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
If you have enough butter anything is good.
Julia Child
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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