Quotes - Divorce/Separation

"Don't cry because it's over.  Smile because it happened."  -- Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

 "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."  -- Mildred Barthel

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."  -- Helen Keller

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." -- Raymond Lindquist

"Better a tooth out than always aching." -- Thomas Fuller

"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."  -- Helen Rowland

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."  -- Unknown

"We are divorced, we are friends, and we are good parents" -- Sarah Ferguson

"Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end."

Carl Bard

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be" -- Ellen Burstyn

"When we are together we are one,

when we are apart each is whole.

Let this be our dream.

Let this be our goal."

"I must conquer my loneliness alone.

I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer.

Two halves have little choice but to join and yes, they do make a whole.  But two wholes, when they coincide...that is beauty.  That is love."

"I don't want to build my life around you,

but I do want to include you in the building of my life."

                                                                 -- from How to Survive the Loss of a Love