“1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you. 3. You must not allow it overstay.”— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Growth, Recovery
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loss, Grief, Pain, Heartbreak
“Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth, Inspirational
“The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: ‘These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself.”— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.comTagged: Lies, emotions, Feelings, strength, Pain
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have n…”— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, kepthoney.comTagged: Pain, Love, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, hurt
“It's never the love that hurts you, it's the attachment to the idea of what it's supposed to be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Attachment, Pain
“I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Healing, Courage, Mistakes
“All hatred is self-hatred. This is why we become so goddamned heartbroken. We cannot lose people; we can only lose ourselves in an idea of them. We decided how we felt about ourselves through them - for better or for worse - so when we perceive that their mindset changes from loving us to loving som…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hatred, Self-hatred, Self-Sabotage, Co-dependency
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Suffering, Enduring Pain, Healing
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Self-Love, Self-Help
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Love, Worthiness, Feeling Worthy
“There is a layer of strength that falls upon the heart that is aching.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.comTagged: strength, Heartbreak
“You should thank the people who hurt you most in life because those relationships didn't actually hurt you, they showed you an unhealed part of yourself, a part that was preventing you from being truly loved.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Growth, Pain, hurt, Breakups
“It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good it felt. Then you remember that quote ‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all’ and you’re like, ‘okay, fine.'”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, humor, Breakups, Pain, Relationships
“Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartbreak
“Just because someone rejected you doesn't mean everyone will. Sometimes good things are taken away from us so we can find better things.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Rejection, Moving On
“You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Life, Pain, Suffering
“You don’t need someone else to forgive you. YOU need to forgive you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Internalized Guilt, Past, Healing, forgiveness, Moving Forward
“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Healing, Emotion, Feeling
“I always wondered why it was so easy For people to leave. What I should have questioned was 'Why I wanted so badly for them to stay.'”— Samantha King, amazon.comTagged: Sad, Heartbreak, goodbye
“With an empty heart, I am free again. For some things to start, some have to end”— Leona Lewis, youtube.comTagged: Endings, Heartbreak, Moving On, Song Lyrics
“I stop masturbating because it makes me cry. I make bad art and keep it to myself. I make bad art and share it with the internet.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.comTagged: Breakups, Sad, Heartbreak
“Never underestimate the healing power of love. It is just as important for our survival as the food we eat, yet it’s free and available in unlimited supply. Love is the strongest medicine.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.comTagged: Love, strength, Free, Healing
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.comTagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness
“We're all a little broken, but the last time I checked broken crayons still color the same.”— Broken, facebook.comTagged: broken, Healing, Love, Self Worth
“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Heartbreak
“You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, The future, Mourning, Moving On
“When your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you're still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That's life. The confusion and fear? That's there to remind you, that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for.”— Nathan Scott, amazon.comTagged: One Tree Hill, Love, Heartbreak, Pain, Moving On
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.comTagged: Passion, Lust, Moving On, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have