Broken hearts show us we’ve grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next. We’re forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.
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Related So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And w... N.K. JEMISIN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do n... RANDY KOMISAR God doesn't punish us. We do that all by ourselves. ANTHONY T. HINCKS We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not ev... YASMIN MOGAHED I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative p... LAURYN DOLL The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pra... BRYANT MCGILL When we get hurt, our bodies immediately start trying to heal that hurt. 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ERIN O'RIORDAN One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to re... CARL SAGAN Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Wel... ALARIC HUTCHINSON What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments... COOPER - INTERSTELLAR We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach bey... J.E. LEIGH Inside us all are pieces of that which makes the neagitve. Demons are neither good nor bad. Like you... SHERRILYN KENYON If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Livin... TARA BRACH All of us deplore the acts of terrorism that we have seen in these last minutes, and our hearts reac... 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DONNA TARTT A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe ... RICHARD BACH In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especia... BRENé BROWN Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that w... SHARON SALZBERG 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ... ABERJHANI When we have lapses defensively, then we start throwing rocks at the rim. It all goes downhill at on... ANDREW BOGUT There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give so... CHARLES DE SECONDAT In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi... LIBBA BRAY Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also... FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Government should convey to US that it knows what to do or what not to do. (Interfering in it) is no... GURUDAS DASGUPTA I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown ma... THOMAS JEFFERSON Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us ... OSCAR WILDE I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. Thi... DAVID LEVITHAN We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, a... PEMA CHöDRöN All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen w... PAMELA PAUL They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer... WILLIAM HAZLITT The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we ha... ALAIN ROBERT There are times...when we are in the midst of life-moments of confrontation with birth or death, or ... MARY DORIA RUSSELL One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. SOPHOCLES One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. SOPHOCLES Harry Potter changed everything. It's this juggernaut that is bigger than anything else out there, a... KRISTIN MATTHEWS We all are prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectati... R.A. SALVATORE Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN (Divorce) We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown, Like royalty who’ve earned the th... CRYSTAL WOODS People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... SIMON MORDEN The fault lies with us, and only us. It’s not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it’s definit... LOUISE PENNY Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicin... SHARON SALZBERG We all have one life and we can choose how we want to live it. It's important you realize that, no m... ZOE SUGG We're open to other people's advice. But I never want to be in a situation where someone else is tel... DAVID KLEIN There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made ... GEORGE SANTAYANA What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I... PATRICK JONES Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every ... HERMANN HESSE At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it ... EDWARD ABBEY So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our ... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON How do you know? How can you prove it’s them and not—” “Us? Because we haven’t ... QUOLEENA SBROCCA Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we h... GRETA CHRISTINA Heartland Now that we’ve given our hearts away With the bric-a-brac, we want them... LISEL MUELLER The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too... MATTHEW KELLY The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is to... MICHELANGELO The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too... MICHELANGELO I don’t know if it’s possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who’ve s... JENNIFER BROWN We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon ... L.M. BROWNING By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our... ZAINAB SALBI We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the... IDOWU KOYENIKAN We’ve gotten wind of a confluence.” Apollo set the folder on Quorum’s desk. Quorum pulle... DREW HAYES I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselve... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people... KILROY J. OLDSTER It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us t... JOCELYN SORIANO God’s mercy and patience with us are beyond our ability to comprehend. He pursues us until we resp... TERESA SCHULTZ So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix. “God, not gods!” insisted Johnnie. ... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outwar... WILLIAM LAW I have a new name for pain. What’s that? The Obliterator. Because when you’re ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewis... H.E. DAVEY I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think... C. JOYBELL C. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay... DEBBIE FORD
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Or to her virtues be a friend,
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