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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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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I’ve had heartaches, headaches, toothaches, earaches, and I’ve had a few pains in the ass; but I’ve survived to tell about it.

Dolly Parton

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Cher

The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that.

Lana Turner

If only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I’m incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don’t know.

Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Do the things you’ve always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back; don’t think, just do.

More than anything I want to see you, girl
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world.

You Could Be Happy, Snow Patrol

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else

Bette Davis

You don’t have a man, you need spaghetti.

Oprah Winfrey

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

It is the friends you can all at 4a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

So many times I define my pride
Through someone else’s eyes
Then I look inside and found my own stride
I found the lasting love for me
If I’m searching for my spirituality
Passionately I must begin with me

There’s just me,
One is the magic number

Jill Scott, One Is The Magic #

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

Amy Tan

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, your school, the teachers – but never blame yourself.  It’s never your fault.  But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the only one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

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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