“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

Don’t pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

Sometimes a “mistake” can end up being the best decision you ever make

Single- is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

No matter how attractive a person’s potential may be, you have to date their reality.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

Don’t ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON’T.

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.

Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.