Broken Heart quotes
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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."
"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."
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."
"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."
"Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships."
"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
"Boy Meets Girl, So What?"
"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all."
"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"
"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself."
"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode."
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."
