Inspirational 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