"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
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"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."
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"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."
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"I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart."
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"Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you."
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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
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"The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you."
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"If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside."
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"Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching."
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"It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
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"You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff"
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"The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation."
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"a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner."
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"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"
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"Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect."
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"There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart."
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