Motivational Single Quotes
~ Embrace Single Life With Hope ~

Getting over a failed relationship or divorce isn’t easy.

Here are some handpicked motivational single quotes to help you adapt to single life.

Break up or divorce is devastating. Words can’t describe the pain and helplessness. But when tears dry, pick yourself up, forgive and move on. I’m sure there's a better future awaiting you.

Below are breakup quotes with divorce quotes, forgiveness quotes and single quotes. I hope you get the motivation to move on.

I know it may seem easier to be said than done. So share your experience here. Let us listen, learn, motivate and hopefully your story will be a motivation to the others.

- BREAKUP QUOTES / DIVORCE QUOTES -

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine

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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt

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When two people decide to get a divorce. It isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland

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Divorce is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr

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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem

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When breaking up with my boyfriend, he told me "you'll never find anyone like me ever!" I thought to myself “I should hope not. You’re the kind I want to get rid of."
Tess Umtata

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Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is, won’t make you cry.
Unknown

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What has faded, is already lost.
Joe Duket

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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
William Shakespeare

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

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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Mae West

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Pain is never permanent.
Teresa of Avila

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Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.
Shawn Alexander

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In pain is a new time born.
Adelbert Von Chamisso

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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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Love can heal a broken heart.
Unknown

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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
William Shakespeare

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller

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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is."
Nicole Kidman

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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.
John Brantne



- FORGIVENESS QUOTES -

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

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese

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Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis Smedes

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Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. Macaulay

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Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King

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The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia

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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me, but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
Rita Mae Brown



- MOVE ON -

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.
Lord Byron

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Turn your scars into stars
Robert H. Schuller

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller

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I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
Yanni

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Never live for yesterday.
Anonymous

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Don’t let the past steal your present.
Cherralea Morgen

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering

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To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
John Maxwell

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Move on, it's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page.
Cayla Mills

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Robert H. Schuller

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
Rex Steven Sikes

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It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam

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Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Slcott

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne



- SINGLE QUOTES -

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
Sex and the City

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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

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Live the life you've dreamed
Henry David Thoreau

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When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
French Proverb

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis

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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.
Jalal ud-Din Rumi

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The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
Jim Rohn

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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

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When your looking for your Mr.Right you will never find him but when you least expect it he will be knocking on your door
Ashley Thomey

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Being single isn’t bad. What is bad is giving up hope on finding that someone special.
Anonymous

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra

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You can't force someone to love you; all you can do is become someone who can be loved; the rest is up them.
Anonymous

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
Richard Bandler

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Jean De La Bruyere

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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

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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