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Love And Loss Quotes About Memories

The past beats inside me like a second heart.
John Banville

The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Proverb

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry

The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.
Unknown

Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely.
Becky Aligada

The past is never where you think you left it.
Katherine Anne Porter

The heart of the dead never dies, it only grows stronger.
Unknown

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Pain

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

Love is never wrong.
Melissa Etheridge

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love And Loss Quotes About Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that sees through walls, breaks down barriers, and sees the light on the other side.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that keeps us going, even when the going gets tough.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that makes us believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that makes us believe that love can conquer all.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that makes us believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that makes us believe that we can find love again, even after we have lost it.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that makes us believe that love never truly dies.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Acceptance

The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
Anonymous

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge it and look at it's face.
Tina Su

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.
Unknown

The only way to have a good life is to stop worrying about a good life and start living one.
Unknown

The only way to do anything is to do it.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Starting Over

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Seneca

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada

Love And Loss Quotes About Moving On

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing at all.
Socrates

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

Love And Loss Quotes About Letting Go

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Deborah Reber

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Alyson Noel

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
Tammara Webber

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca

Love And Loss Quotes About Healing

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The only way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.
Unknown

The greatest healing therapy is love and laughter.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.
Caroline Myss

The greatest healing therapy is love.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is forgiveness.
Unknown

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

The greatest healing therapy is love and compassion.
Unknown

The greatest healing therapy is self-love and self-care.
Unknown

Healing is not a destination, but a journey.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Regret

Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, especially when it comes to love.
Unknown

The only thing worse than a broken heart is knowing you would give him another chance.
Unknown

Regret is the worst kind of pain. It's the kind that lingers long after the wound has healed.
Unknown

The saddest thing about love is that not every story has a happy ending.
Unknown

It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, but it's hard to remember that when you're consumed by regret.
Unknown

Regret is a reminder that we didn't do everything we could have done.
Unknown

Love is a risk, and sometimes the risk doesn't pay off.
Unknown

Regret is the price we pay for not following our hearts.
Unknown

The hardest part of letting go is knowing that you could have done something differently.
Unknown

Regret is a weight that we carry with us, a constant reminder of what could have been.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Second Chances

Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.
The Simpsons

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho

Love And Loss Quotes About Heartbreak

The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks

The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
Unknown

The worst feeling in the world is knowing you've been used and lied to by someone you trusted.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Grief

Grief is the price we pay for love.
Elizabeth II

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
Russell M. Nelson

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Earl Grollman

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.
Unknown

The reality is that we don't forget, move on, and have closure. But rather we honor, we remember, and incorporate our deceased loved ones into our lives in a new way. In fact, keeping memories of your loved one alive in your mind and heart is an important part of your healing journey.
Unknown

Love And Loss Quotes About Closure

Closure is just a word for people who have never really had to suffer.
William Paul Young

Closure is a luxury of the emotionally stable.
Brené Brown

Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.
Sylvester McNutt III

Closure is not something that just happens, it is something you create.
Anonymous

Closure is not a feeling. It is an action.
Anonymous

Closure is not a guarantee. It's just a possibility.
Anonymous

Closure is not a one-time event. It's a process.
Anonymous

Closure is not about forgetting. It's about making peace with what happened.
Anonymous

Closure is not about finding someone new. It's about finding yourself.
Anonymous

Closure is not about getting over it. It's about getting through it.
Anonymous

Love And Loss Quotes About Strength

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.
Brene Brown

The only way to get through grief is to get through it.
Helen Macdonald

The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Love And Loss Quotes About Resilience

The human heart is resilient. It can recover after being broken into a million pieces.
Christina Yang

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

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