Divorce is not easy. Your life changes, your family gets uprooted, and things change forever. It’s completely natural to feel down, or have regrets about the process. In our experience, you probably made the right decision. However you probably need a bit of reassurance. We put together these quotes to help you through divorce. You can also share them in a card or message to family or friends going through the process.

1) “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
— Jennifer Weiner

2) “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”
— Lucille Ball

3) “Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.”
— Gerald Lieberman

4)”Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is depends on who you are and what your parents did to you.”
— Amy Bloom

5) “I wanted to turn my divorce into a positive. What if I didn’t blame the other person for anything, and held myself 100 percent accountable? What if I checked my own s— at the door and put my children first? And reminded myself about the things about my ex-husband that I love, and fostered the friendship?”
— Gwyneth Paltrow

6) “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.”
— Rupi Kaur

7) “Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.”
— Sonia Sotomayor

8) “Now she knew what divorce really was: Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street.”
—Judy Blundell

9) “I was a high-functioning depressive, seemingly pulled together and buttoned down. But inside deep, I was numb and mute. Now on the other side of divorce, I know that was me fragmented and doing my best to cope. But my body knew.”
—Liza Caldwell

10) “Studies have shown that the number one factor that affects adult children is not whether they are from a “broken home.” It is the level of conflict between parents – married or divorced.”
—Lisa Derr

11) “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life,”
—J.K. Rowling

12) “It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point we win, but before that win, there’s always that loss that spurs us on.”
— Dolores Huerta

13) “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

14) “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

15) “I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
—Erica Jong

16) “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!”
— C. JoyBell C.

17) “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

18) “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
—Guy Finley

19) “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
— Carol Burnett

20) “Don’t be afraid. Be focused, Be determined, Be hopeful, Be empowered.”
— Michelle Obama

21) “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Herman Hesse

22) “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
— Maya Angelou

23) “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
– Louis L’Amour

24) “Perhaps sometimes reminding ourselves that we do have a choice makes it easier to pick the harder one.”
— Eva Melusine Thieme

25) “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.”
— Mandy Hale

26) “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.”
— Jim Rohn

27) “Don’t have regrets. You can learn something from every experience.”
— Ellen Degeneres

28) “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

29) “The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.”
—Olivia Wilde

30) “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.”
— Eda LeShan