Positive Quotes About Divorce and Starting Again
Divorce is obviously a difficult process, and one in which it is typically difficult to maintain a positive outlook. Hopefully, these positive quotes about divorce will help you or a dear friend work through divorce, and move on to a new, better life.
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything youre correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person youre with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet."
"In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage."
"In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert."
I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff."
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again."
"Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces."
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it."
"Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce."
"Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today."
"Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together."
"The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is."
"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 pieces as long as I lived."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"God is closest to those with broken hearts. "
