![]() By stepping aside, they’ve done you a favor. Love should come with ease, freedom and space to expand.”Ģ1. “If you have to force it, it’s not for you. “ Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. Professor Perlman, Call Me By Your Nameġ9. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything-what a waste!” We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. "In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”ġ8. “ I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. ![]() It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”ġ7. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. "He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. Don't waste your time on anything else."ġ5. ![]() " Real love moves freely in both directions. “Most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.”ġ4. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”ġ3. “The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.”ġ2. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”ġ1. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”ġ0. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.”ĩ. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. “ I love to shop after a bad relationship. “ What’s broken is broken-and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”Ĩ. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”ħ. “ This is a good sign, having a broken heart. But a little more informed, now I’m older. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. ![]() Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”ģ. “ The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”Ģ. Real love moves freely in both directions. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. “ You cannot convince people to love you. The only way out is through, and the only way through is by grieving what was lost and preparing for what comes next.īelow, 24 quotes from writers, poets, thinkers, and one brilliant movie dad to help you on your way forward.ġ. They’re messy and painful and sad, no matter how necessary or inevitable.
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