How I Met Your Mother
Long - running sitcomHowI Met Your Motherwas , at heart , a romance - the story of how a man see the woman who would be the love of his life . However , there was so much more to the series than this , to the extent that the titular Mother was just a part of the show before being stamp out off !
HIMYMtaught fan that love does n’t just have-to doe with to love affair . It ’s also about the making love for family , friends , and most significantly , ourselves . Ted ’s monologues to his kids , along with his interactions with the other darling characters , made for some fantastic quotes many of us can reflect upon .
update on October 8th , 2021 , by Rose Graceling - Moore : How I Met Your Mother is finally getting a spin - off , another show about witness ' genuine making love ' , although in this case , it’sHow I Met Your Father . Undoubtedly , the new series ( starring Hilary Duff ) is going to be focused on romance and dating again , as well as the connections to supporter and family that made the original serial so much more than just a fluffy show about amatory making love .
“Everyone has an opinion on how long it takes to recover from a breakup.”
After Stella leaves Ted at the altar , he fight to figure out how long it will take for him to get over it - as indicate in this quote from the installment ' The Naked Man ' . Everyone in the gang has a unlike notion , of grade , with that range from possibility base on the duration of the human relationship ( Lily and Marshall , who go for half the length or one hebdomad per month ) , to a thousand drinking ( Robin ) , to no fourth dimension at all ( Barney ) .
This whole conversation is a phenomenal quote for the show , absolutely sum up up the characters , but it ’s more than that . It shows that , as Ted says , no one can gibe on one right way to get over someone . Love can be tough , and dealing with a separation is never going to be easy - or as square as a mathematical equation .
“Some couples always support each other, and some couples always challenge each other. But is one really better than the other? Yes. Support is better. Way better."
Ted and Zoey have a complicated relationship - and one where the two are constantly reason . And when they terminate up comparing themselves toLily and Marshall , who rarely argueand are always there for each other , Ted gets defensive . At first , he attempt to argue that he and Zoey dispute each other , and that ’s a good affair … but over time , he realizes how exhausting the constant arguments and debates are .
He may not always make the best choices in love , but with this quote , he is unquestionably hitting on a truth - that while some debate may be a expert thing , support in a partnership is non - transferrable .
“You can’t cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it’s already gone."
All of the role inHow I Met Your Motherwere shamed of obtain onto the past sometimes - and this beautiful quote from Ted comes in the instalment ' Something Old ' when they all must learn to have go . Ted has been holding on to Robin , Robin is vex about her wedding , Lily and Marshall are run to Rome and Ted fears he will be forgotten … but in the end , they all realise that it ’s time to simply trust .
All of the persona croak on journey that allowed them to forget the past and just attend forward - and this is an important lesson . For anyone , determine how to permit go of preceding relationships and move forward is a bighearted good deal , but a part of maturate up .
“Kids, when you’re in a new relationship and you’re competing with your ex for who’s happier, it can get ugly.”
Ted and Robin ’s complicated history comes to the fore , here , when they end up verbally competing over who is happier ; Ted and Victoria , or Robin and Nick . In ' Nannies',Robin and Ted start by claiming they are both absolutely happy , but finish by admitting that thing are not going as well as they could be ( and , as succeeding Ted unwrap , both relationships will end within a month ) .
Love should never be a challenger , especially with an ex-wife . And this episode get a very good point - that when a relationships starts being something to prove or show off to other people , it ’s definitely not a good signaling !
“Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack."
In ' The Wedding Bride ' , Ted realizes that he has more emotional baggage than he thought - mostly from being left at the communion table by Stella . When the movieThe Wedding Bridebecomes a huge smash , he is forced to relive his injury , and it severely impacts his new human relationship . In the end , though , he realizes that his new girlfriend has her own baggage - and that mayhap it ’s not as dreadful as he think to have some history .
As the quote suggest , everyone has some variety of baggage in their life . No matter what that is , though , it does n’t mean that someone is n’t deserving of love . Ted may not find love in this episode , but he will by the end of the serial publication .
“People don’t get the chance to discover each other anymore.”
This episode sees Ted settle to try and find some mystery by not google a raw engagement . Ted had the correct idea of not doing any online enquiry beforehand , alas , Robin and Barney were n’t going to lease that slide and told Ted all there was to acknowledge about her . It led to a fantastically odd episode , and a great argument about appropriate ' mystery ' in dating - something that emphatically makes a remainder .
While it ’s unconvincing that many people would obtain themselves on a date with someone quite as intimidating as Janet in ' Mystery Vs History ' , Ted still has a full stop . pay back to know someone slowly , in an age of speed and societal media , has veridical value … but is truly hard .
“You may think your only choices are to swallow your anger…”
" You may think your only choices are to swallow your ire or throw it in someone ’s face , but there ’s a third option : you’re able to just let it go , and only when you do that is it really fail and you’re able to move forward . "
What Stella did to Ted was just awful and it would stick around with him for class - but in the episode ' Happily Ever After ' , he finally starts toselflessly let go of his detachment with Stella , and render this unbelievable quote .
He ’s been struggling with hang on to his anger , and here was intending to go shout at Stella over what she did to him , but rather , he realizes that this would n’t do anything . It would n’t take back what she did , and it would n’t make him any happier . Once again , the lessons that Ted learns translate beautifully to the real human beings .
“Because sometimes even if you know how something’s gonna end that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the ride.”
There are a lot of relationship endings inHow I Met Your Mother , and a mass of the metre , it seems like that ’s a terrible thing - but as Ted points out in ' Ted Mosby : Architect ' , just because something does n’t lead to a happy conclusion , that does n’t mean that it is n’t worth it . There is little doubt that he would deliberate his human relationship with Robin deserving it , even though they did n’t make out until the very death . Similarly , Barney and Robin may have ended up divorced , but they too , were deserving it .
For a show that is so focussed on encounter love and on the eventual happy conclusion , it ’s a wonderful lesson to remind viewer that the finish is n’t the only important thing .
“If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality…”
“ If you ’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationalness and desire them to have everything they require , no matter how much it destroys you , it ’s love . ”
This one reach hard for Ted but it was in the end time he said it . Even days before Robin ’s wedding , he admit that he still loves her and want nothing more than to check that she ’s happy , even if it means he does n’t get to be with her . Seeing him come to terms with Robin being with Barney is definitely one of the sorry and most emotional moments on the show .
The reality of life story is that not everyone is operate to feel the same fashion about the citizenry that have sex them . But this quote really brings home the approximation that just because a romantic making love is n’t possible , it does n’t signify that caring for someone is also impossible . Of of course , this is Ted , so it ’s also a bit overdramatic !
If you’re not scared, then you’re not taking a chance. If you’re not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway?"
Robin and Barney have a long road to actually being in a relationship- one that start in ' Definitions ' , when Robin forces them to define their relationship , and Ted strike down this gem of a quote . Here , is makes the point that love life can be about taking a risk on a person - and on a relationship that is n’t guaranteed to succeed .
While Ted himself often fails to take this into account in his own family relationship , sometimes becoming jaded or worried about taking the leap , he is usually a character who embodies optimism and Bob Hope . He ’s always unforced to take a opportunity on love .
