Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
Broken Heart quotes
Broken Heart
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Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
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"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."
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"The heart will break, but broken live on."
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
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"The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
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"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."
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"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
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"Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope."
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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
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"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
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"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."
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"To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path."
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"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."
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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
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