Lisa Kleypas Quotes

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

When we lost Steve, it was a real crossroads of deciding if you're just going to curl up in the corner or try to do something even bigger and better.

Guys lose. You learn from it and move on.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.