Valentine’s Day didn’t go as planned?

Let’s face it- breaking up sucks.  Whether you’re the one left with a broken heart or the one ending the relationship, you’ll need some help getting through the tough times.  These quotes will help you wipe away those tears, pick up the pieces, and put on your dancing shoes (preferably stilettos).

1. Relationships are like glass.  Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting them back together.  ~ Anonymous

2. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

3. I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.  ~ Robert Brault
4. Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.  ~ African Proverb
5. Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one. ~ Ian Philpot
6. When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.  ~ Eda LeShan
7. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.  ~ Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939
8. You think you are killing me.  I think you are committing suicide.  ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
9. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.  ~ Harper Lee
10. The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.  ~ Ernest Dimnet
11. Good fortune shies away from gloom.  Keep your spirits up.  Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.  ~ Glorie Abelhas
12. Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.  ~ Oscar Wilde
13. Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential.  ~ Anna Gould
14. Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it’s not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn’t give up on them. ~ Unknown
15. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.  ~ George Bernard Shaw
16. The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.  ~ Ernest Dimnet
17. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~ Anonymous

18. Life’s not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.  ~ Terri Guillemets

19. Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~ Anonymous
20. I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m having a party!  ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon