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• Heartbreak: Overwhelming distress.   Oxford Dictionary
• Heartbreak: Feelings of great sadness or disappointment.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Heartbreak: Great sorrow, grief, or anguish.  Dictionary.com
• Heartbreak: Crushing grief, anguish, or distress.  Merriam Webster
• Sadness, Grief, Break up, Saying goodbye,  Despair,  Depression

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Heartbreak can be excruciatingly painful

• I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.   Missy Altijd
• Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.  M. Grenon
• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. Sigmund Freud
• The pain of having a broken heart is not so much as to kill you, yet not so little as to let you live.
• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Nicholas Sparks
• Where is the good in goodbye? Meredith Willson
• To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. George Lansdowne
• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Anna Brownell Jameson
• It’s not the goodbye that hurts, it’s the flashbacks that follow.
• It went from butterflies fluttering in my stomach to bees stinging in my heart.
• To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
• Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. Stephen Covey
• You don’t die from a broken heart.. you only wish you did.
• Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching. Juliet Marillier
• Loneliness, trust issues, depression, suppressed anger. These are some symptoms given from heartbreak.
• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin
• Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Lamartine
• Rejection, though–it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending. Deb Caletti
• Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. S. Lewis
• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart. Jacqueline Carey
• Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking. Alison McGhee
• Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I’m only falling apart. There’s nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart. Bonnie Tyler
• When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same. Steph Campbell, My Heart for Yours
• There’s a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there’s nothing I can say to make her feel alright.
• That feeling you get in your stomach when your heart’s broken. It’s like all the butterflies just died.
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Love sometimes dies and that can be hard to bare

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Anaïs Nin
• My love-lies-bleeding. Thomas Campbell
• Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. Javan
• The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
• The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. Uniek Swain
• The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over. Nicholas Sparks
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Even harder is loving someone who does not love you back

• The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
• Giving someone all your love is not an insurance that they will love you back. Ritianne Muscat
• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charlie Brown
• The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
• Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.
• Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.

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Know that even love unreturned has its rainbow

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
• Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. J. M. Barrie

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Risking heartbreak is the price you pay for loving deeply

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. Louise Erdrich
• Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
• Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. Leo Tolstoy
• The heart was made to be broken. Oscar Wilde
• Well, you can’t have heartbreak without love,” Dan pointed out. “If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him. Leila Sales
• So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. A. Bucchianeri
• If you never love you never hurt. If you never hurt you’ve never lived.  Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.   Sophia Nam
• Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
• The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. Jennifer Aniston
• Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.
• Where there is love there is pain. Spanish Proverb

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To spare yourself from heartbreak by not allowing yourself to love comes at a terrible price

• To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. Erich Fromm
• The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.  Hilary Stanton Zunin
• A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. Soren Kierkegaard
• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. Eleanor Roosevelt
• It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. Xiaolu Guo

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It might not feel like it now but it’s better to love and be hurt than not to love at all

• Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William M. Thackeray
• It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Thackeray
• I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. Richard Rohr

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Sometimes life calls on you to let go of someone and letting go is the best thing you can do

• Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse
• Don’t tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you’ll see that it’s better.
• Letting go is something you do when you still love someone, but just don’t believe in them anymore.
• Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
• Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. From the television show The Wonder Years
• If you think it’s time to let go, then just let go. There’s no point in looking back to what you have already lost.
• If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don’t, their love was never yours to begin with.
• You can’t be happy if you’re still holding onto people that have already moved on. Let them go.
• Sometimes you have to learn to let go of the person you love, and just hold on to the memory of what was.
• Stop holding on to what hurts and start making room for what feels good.
• The hardest part of loving someone is knowing when to let go and knowing when to say goodbye.
• Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing. Tony Robbins
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Letting go is especially important if someone is reckless with your heart

• The biggest mistake a girl can make is thinking that the guy who broke her heart once won’t do it again.
• Don’t waste your time giving someone a second chance, when there is someone better out there looking for their first.
• Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts and don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
• The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. Mark Twain
• Your time is precious. Do not waste it on anyone who doesn’t realize that you are too.
• Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you. Lauren Conrad

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Letting go of someone sometimes requires leaving the relationship unmended

• Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as I lived. Margaret Mitchell

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The most important part of letting go is accepting that the relationship is over

• The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is. Tigress Luv
• At some point, you’ll have to realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life. Ashley Hodgeson
• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.  Paulo Coelho
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When your heart is broken, realise your life will go on, though it may not feel like it right now

• The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron
• I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.  Rupert Brooke
• I cried today… not because I miss you… or even wanted you… but because I realized I’m gonna be all right without you.
• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
• It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. Sue Monk Kidd
• The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. Mary Balogh
• A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live. Suzanne Finnamore

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You may feel that it will take forever to heal

• They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. Ezbeth Wilder
• As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you. Toto
• It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.
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However, be assured that your heart will heal with time …

• Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall. Jodi Picoult
• Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before. Cassandra Clare
• I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay. Sara Evans
• Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. Flavia Weedn
• When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut… it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
• There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Harry Crews
• It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Kennedy

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… for time is a great healer

• Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
• No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. M. Cioran
• Time is a physician that heals every grief. Diphilus
• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux
• Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
• And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. Jack Canfield
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It is important to allow yourself to feel your pain for numbing it will make the pain even worse later on…

• The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it… Nicholas Sparks
• If sadness is not acknowledged and expressed in a healthy way, it has the potential to lead to depression. The emotion sadness often occurs as a result of loss – real or perceived. Amanda Harvey
• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney
• The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. Henry Maudsley
• The scary thing is not being able to cry. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That’s when you’re in big trouble. Haruki Murakami
• Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you. M. Boyce
• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. Moliere
• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. K. Rowling
• You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.
• The cure for pain is in the pain. Rumi
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… whereas experiencing deep sadness now will open you up to feeling joy again in the future

• What is joy without sorrow? Mark Twain
• Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. Markéta Irglová
• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? Kahlil Gibran
• You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
• After all, you can’t truly be happy if you’ve never known pain. You can’t truly feel joy if you’ve never felt heartbreak. You can’t know what it’s like to be filled unless you’ve been empty. Kelly Cutrone
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Let your tears flow freely for there is no better healer

• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. Ovid
• Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.    Eileen Mayhew
• Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. Albert Smith
• Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bare. Joshua Wisenbaker
• A broken heart bleeds tears. Steve Maraboli
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Let your deep sorrow reveal your inner strength and beauty

• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. Rumi
• Grief thinks scars make for great tattoos. Accept that you’ll never be the same. Trauma marks you. Embrace how much more dimensional you’ve become.  Danielle LaPorte
• Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. John Green
• Look well into thyself. There is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou will always look there. Marcus Aurelius
• Until you are broken, you don’t know what you’re made of.
• There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart.  When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.  Douglas Bloch
• Strength,  Beauty

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Let go of your regrets and “if onlys”

• Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. Laura Kasischke
• For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” John Greenleaf Whittier
• You can obsess and obsess over how things ended – what you did wrong or could have done differently- but there’s not much of a point. It’s not like it’ll change anything. So really, why worry? Jess Rothenberg
• To be happy, drop the words “if only” and substitute instead the words “next time.” Smiley Blanton
• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides
• Regret is an appalling waste of energy…you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield
• Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. Victoria Holt
• Regrets can hold you back and can prevent the most wonderful things taking place in your lives. Eileen Caddy
• Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be. Marsha Petrie Su
• Letting go,  Regret

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If you’re feeling angry or bitter, realise you have to forgive to forget

• If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open you heart to.
• The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present.
• When we live with resentment toward another our hearts close down. Letting go of our resentment frees us from placing blame on them and allows us to look toward ourself for peace. Tigress Luv
• You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
• Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius
• Anger,  Forgiveness

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Remember the good times you had together, not just the pain at the end

• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran
• Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss
• Sometimes the memories are worth the pain.
• Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I’ll always remember it. David Nicholls
• Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain? Bernhard Schlink

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Let your friends support you for they can be of great comfort

• No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends. Oscar Wilde
• The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. Gwyneth Paltrow
• If you want to fix a broken heart, friends have got the best glue.
• I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing. Paul Young
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Part of healing is rediscovering your identity in the absence of the one you love

• People always think that the most painful thing is losing the one you love in your life. The truth is, the most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, forgetting that you are special too.
• One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. Mandy Hale

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Look to the future with hope and don’t let go of your dreams …

• Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
• Old times never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. George E. Woodberry
• There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. Pearl Buck
• You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. Jan Glidewell
• The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. Aberjhani
• I make the most of what comes and the least of what goes.
• The future,  Hope,  Dreams

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… realising that all endings are also beginnings

• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
• Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard
• Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle
• There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour
• Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
• When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure. Pema Chodron
• All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. Mitch Albom
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Don’t allow a broken heart to close yourself from loving again

• The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. Somerset Maugham
• Having a broken heart is like falling off a horse. Most people will get back on, but some walk away too afraid of the pain to take another chance.
• Though lovers be lost, love shall not. Dylan Thomas

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Have faith you will find someone else to love

• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I daresay she will do. Rupert Brooke
• When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. Coco J. Ginger
• Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
• When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. Paulo Coelho

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Sometimes it’s not the actual person you miss most but the image and the feelings

• Sometimes it’s not the person you miss, but the feelings you had when you were with them.
• I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
• Do I really love him… or am I addicted to the pain of wanting something I can’t have.

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To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself

• To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. Jocelyn Soriano
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God is closest to those with broken hearts

• God is closest to those with broken hearts. Jewish Saying
• God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
• Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. Criss Jami
• The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking. Bible
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Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. George Eliot
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
• Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. Jean Paul Richter

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Heartbreak is part of life

• Get used to heartbreak. Every relationship you ever have will fail until you meet the person you marry – and even then it’s not guaranteed. Melysha Acharya
• Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends. Tom Cruise

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There is a kind of beauty in heart-break

• If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders. Andrew Harvey
• This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Elizabeth Gilbert
• The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in. David J. Wolpe
• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. James Baldwin
• Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. Mandy Hale
• Realize now that when your heart breaks you have to fight like hell to make sure you are still alive… because you are, and that pain you feel is life. The confusion and fear? That is there to remind you that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for. Mark Schwahn

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More thoughts

• I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. Emily Brontë
• Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them. Christopher Pike
• They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Psalms
• You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater
• To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. Jocelyn Soriano
• Your relationship may be “Breaking Up,” but you won’t be “Breaking Down.” If anything you’re correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet. D. Ivan Young

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• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. The Wizard of Oz
• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. Oscar Wilde
• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose. Rita Rudner
• Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
• Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
• No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there’s not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak. Natasha Friend, For Keeps
• Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
• The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go. Rob Temple, Very British Problems
• Thanks for ripping my heart out. After the initial pain of removal subdued, I noticed that it got a chance to breathe new air. Now that I took it back and placed it back in, it works better than ever. — ahhhhh.   Luther Lotz
• Sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone.

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