Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.~ Morton Hunt

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

Well, it’s true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it’s also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It’s like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I’ll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness… those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces ~ Sarah Dessen

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word “divorce” came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant “divide.” In truth, it comes from “divertere,” which means “to divert.” I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff.~ Mitch Albom

Your relationship may be “Breaking Up,” but you won’t be “Breaking Down.” If anything you’re correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person you’re with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.~ D. Ivan Young

Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
Walt Whitman

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

You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.

If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
chinese proverb

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
Robert Hastings

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband to hide his money. Johnny Carson

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life. -Joyce Brothers

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. Robin Williams

Going through a divorce is like having every aspect of your life played back. Anything you have mishandled or regretted is talked about by everyone as they try to figure out who was right and who the innocent party really is. The comfort you once experienced is gone completely. There are many choices for new comfort, but most of them have no value except introducing new addictions or pounds of fat or guilt.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.