“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe

Losing a boyfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife can feel like your heart is literally being torn out. When a relationship ends, the feeling is probably the greatest loneliness you have ever known. But every love relationship has some cracks in its foundation and in many cases – for many reasons – these cracks may result in a breakup. In a love relationship, it is difficult to change, and you might have been comfortable enough that you felt no need to change. But now there is that pain. What do you do? Well you can use the pain as motivation to learn and grow. It’s not easy. It takes a lot of hard work. But you can.

Breakup quotes help us come to realize that we are not alone out there in our heartbreak. People can share, yet you can only experience alone the broken hearts which back through hundreds and hundreds of years, as love quotes state. A breakup is a painful experience that helps us learn from our mistakes. And like everyone else in the history of humankind, you will also get through it. Here are 49 positive quotes to give you strength after a breakup.

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”
— unknown

“Anyone can give you attention and compliments,
but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty.”
— Charles Orlando

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break, and all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intentions.
So go, Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you.”
— L.R. Frost

“Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.”
— Andy Biersack

“Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did.
Take a moment to appreciate your strength.”
— Karen Salmanson

“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Forgiveness is not something we do for other people.
It’s something we do for ourselves to move on.”
– Buddha

“Holding on to anger is like drinking poison
and expecting the other person to die.”

“I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy,
I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going
to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile.”
— Lone Star

“If you can love the wrong person that much,
imagine how much you can love the right one.”

“If you’re gonna make a change, you’re gonna have to operate
from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”
— Tony Robbins

“Let me be clear, my love is unconditional,
but your presence in my life is not.
The moment that you prove that your value of me does not
measure up to my sense of self-worth,
I’ll have no problem unconditionally loving the memory of you and moving on.”
— Carson Patrick Bowie

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you
with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken,
or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples
falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

“Love is what you were born with. Fear is what you learned here.”
— Marianne Williamson

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering.
You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk
it away or punch it away or even therapy it away.
It’s just there, and you have to survive it.
You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it
and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can
in the direction of your best and happiest dreams
across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
— M. Kathleen Casey

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“It is impossible to live without failing at something
unless you live so cautiously that you might as well
not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
— J. K. Rowling

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling

“Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan the flames.”
— Rumi

“The habit of forever looking backward is fatal to efficiency
just as is the habit of looking forward too much.
Today is the day. Live the day and have done with it.
Fling your best into it, then you have nothing to regret,
and there is no need of anticipating tomorrow.”
— O. S. Marden

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create,
to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love,
and to be greater than our suffering.”
— Ben Okri

“The sign of true forgiveness is when you stop wishing it had been any other way.”

“Those who do not know how to weep with their
whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”
— Golda Meir

“When life shows you its time to let someone go,
and you refuse to, life will allow the person to hurt
you to the point you have no choice but to let go.”

“You are telling the story of your life.
You have the power to tell a different one.
You choose, every day, how you interpret others’ actions, events,
and the world around you.
You and only you have the power to change this. Change the script!”
— Laura Elliott

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head,
but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
— Chinese Proverb

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
― Michael McMillian

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
— Barbara De Angelis

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek
and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi

”The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss,
and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

”Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends
up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.”
― Naeem Callaway

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious.
You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by
deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
― Anna Taylor

”Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you.
Be yourself, and the right people will like you.”

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours;
if they don’t they never were.
— Richard Bach

“If you went back and erased all the mistakes you’ve made, you erase yourself.”

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
— Nelson Mandela

“It’s always darkest before the dawn.”

“Relationships are like glass.
Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than
try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
― Author D. Love

“Some people think that it’s holding on
that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”

Someday, we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain.
We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge,
but letting things unfold in their own way and own time.
After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our
life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh,
forgive, believe and love all over again.
— unknown

“When a dewdrop slides off a leaf and surrenders to gravity,
the drop loses its previous identity and joins the vastness of the earth below.
It must have trembled before it fell, just on the edge
between the known and the unknown.”

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other
relationship you have.”
— Robert Holden