Dating : 5 Powerful Quotes to Help You Heal From Heartbreak

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Have you ever lost something only to find yourself months or years later thankful for that loss because it created the space in your life for something beautiful that you once could only dream of?

It is our human nature to search for answers when things aren’t going the way we want them to.

But answers are rarely immediate.

In the immediate aftermath of a loss, answers often allude us.

Life seems unfair and unjust.

We feel victimized.

It is not unusual at the end of a relationship for people to quickly go off in search of a replacement for what they feel has been taken from them, desperate to fill the void that pain is currently filling, impatient to have what they want.

The reason those attempts so often also end in pain and disappointment is that we can’t rush our way into the life we feel we deserve.

We must earn it.

Our pain is life’s gift to us, a chance to learn and grow, to demonstrate our faith and trust.

In order to grow we must temporarily suspend our search for external answers, which may never come, and instead turn inward and listen to what our pain is trying to reveal to us.

Day by day, moment by moment, one foot in front of the other.

Do that for long enough and one day you will awaken to find that the answers are clear.

The life you’re now living is the answer to why you had to let go of the life you once had.

If it weren’t for your courage then, you wouldn’t have what you have now.

And that’s what you have to hold onto when you’re at the beginning — that give yourself enough time and you will live your way into the answers.