Inspirational Quotes

“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.”

— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home

“It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.”

— Jennifer Aniston 

“I wanted to turn my divorce into a positive. What if I didn’t blame the other person for anything, and held myself 100 percent accountable? What if I checked my own s— at the door and put my children first? And reminded myself about the things about my ex-husband that I love, and fostered the friendship?”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

― Shannon L. Alder

“Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.”

— Valerie Bertinelli

“The process of discovering with somebody that you love that you don’t work is so painful.”

— Kate Hudson

“I didn’t exactly want to get divorced. I didn’t exactly not want to…By then, my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I’d never been.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together, it can be even worse.”

— Monica Bellucci

“I learned that it would take more than just the black and white steps of getting divorced, or even finding a lawyer. It would take not just facing my fears. It would take walking into my fears—with each step making me bolder and less ashamed, with each step giving me courage.”

— Liza Caldwell

“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.”

— Richard Wagner

“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.”

— Robert Anderson

“Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks the foundation of most people’s lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.” 

— Debbie Ford

“Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.” 

— Sumner Redstone

“You cannot start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”

— Michael McMillan

“There’s nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.”

— Michael Douglas

“I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.” 

— Alana Stewart

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we fail to look at the door which has been opened for us.”

– Helen Keller

“Accept that you are MORE than you think you are…. Not less than what you think you should be.”

– Stephanie Kathan

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”

– George Eliot

“Just because the past didn’t turn out as you wanted it to, doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you ever imagined.”

– Unknown

“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”

– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”

— Lucille Ball

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

– Marilyn Monroe

“Above all, be the hero of your own life and not the victim.”

– Nora Ephron

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

– Denis Waitley

“There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.”

– Melanie Koulouris

“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.”

– Mareez Reyes

“You will know you made the right decision; you feel the stress leaving your body, your mind, and your life.”

– Brigette Nicole

“Being single and having peace of mind is much better than being in a relationship where you feel single and have no peace of mind.” 

– Unknown

“Holding on is basically believing there is only a past; letting go is knowing there is a future.”

– Daphne Rose Kingma

“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

– Brené Brown 

 “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.”

– Jennifer Weiner

 “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

– Robert H. Schuller 

  “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

 Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“You might not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can choose to not be reduced by them.”

– Maya Angelou

“Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.”

– Michelle Obama

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

– Nora Ephron

“Divorce is just a part of your life. It doesn’t define who you are. You decide that.”

– Karen Finn

“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

– Brené Brown

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”

– George Eliot

“We don’t have the power to change the facts of divorce, but divorce definitely gives us the power to change ourselves.”

– Karen Finn

“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.”

– Jackson Kiddard

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”

– Shannon L. Alder

“It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.”

– Rachel Wolchin

“Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.”

– Jerry Hall

“Even the darkest nights come to an end, and the Sun will rise.”

– Victor Hugo

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.”

– Sarah Ben Breathnach

“I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.”

– Alana Stewart

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well.”

– Buddha

“Despite the pain, if minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, you keep going, you will get through your divorce.”

– Karen Finn

“Do you see your divorce as a set-back or a do-over? It took time and effort, but I now see mine as a do-over.”

– Karen Finn

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”

– Robert Brault

“Recovery begins from the darkest moment.”

– John Major

“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

“For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in their life.”

– Adam Scott

“Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.”

– Michael Crawford

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

– Joseph Campbell

“All endings are also beginnings. We are just not aware of it at the time.”

– Mitch Albom

We cannot change the past, but we can start a new chapter with a happy ending.”

– Nishan Panwar

“At the end of your marriage, your job, at least in part, is to let go and move away from the wreckage to create something better.”

– Karen Finn

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”

– Mandy Hale

“Divorce sets off a tidal wave of changes – physical, mental, emotional, social, and existential.”

– Karen Finn

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

– Marilyn Monroe

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

– William James

“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

– Rabindranath Tagore

“It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point we win, but before that win, there’s always that loss that spurs us on.”

– Dolores Huerta

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

– Denis Waitley

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

– Albert Einstein