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."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow."
Dennis Brown
Musician
"Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write."
Hugh Miller
Geologist, Author
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
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"If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack."
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
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"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
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"I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere."
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"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
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"I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
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"You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past."
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"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."
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"Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people"
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"I'm the guy who will persist in his path. I'm the guy who will make you laugh. I'm the guy who strives to be open. I'm the guy who's been heartbroken. I'm the guy who has been on his own, and I'm the guy who's felt alone. I'm the guy who holds your hand, and I'm the guy who will stand up and be a man. I'm the guy who tries to make things better. I'm the guy who's the whitest half Cuban ever. I'm the guy who's lost more than he's won. I'm the guy who's turn, but never spun. I'm the guy you couldn't see. I'm that guy, and that guy is me."
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"Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency."
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"You can’t give your heart to a wild thing."
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"Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go."
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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"Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death."
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"My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives..."
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"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
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"Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine."
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