To Every Beautifully Broken Girl, Read These Quotes When You're Feeling Down

“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s…”

— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com

“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”

— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com

“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that onl…”

— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com

“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.”

— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com

“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”

— passionatelypsycho, passionatelypsycho.tumblr.com

“All the broken people I know are also the kindest. I guess when you have been through terrible suffering you do not want anyone else to have to endure it. Especially when you know from experience how good a person can be at hiding it.”

— Nikita Gill, instagram.com

“You can't break what's already broken.”

— Six Word Story, facebook.com

“All the broken hearts in the world still beat.”

— Ingrid Michaelson, youtube.com

“The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?”

— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half upon you to fill you whole. I risked it all just to dream you complete and catch you one day free in the wild.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”

— Tullian Tchividjian, amazon.com

“I don't trust easily, and I don't give second chances. I'm messy. I'm emotional. I love hard and get upset about little things. I take everything personally. I want to fix everyone, even if they're not broken.”

— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com

“'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”

— Paul McCartney, amazon.com

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

— J.S.B. Morse, amazon.com

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”

— Holly Black, amazon.com

“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“A woman's heart shouldn't be judged by the amount of times it has been broken, but more for its strength to know when to walk away.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com

“I am the kind of broken that only comes when so many pieces are shattered off the whole that it forgets it ever painted a picture at all.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com

“We're all a little broken, but the last time I checked broken crayons still color the same.”

— Broken, facebook.com

“I am the kind of empty that comes only when it’s known that I will never be filled again. The kind of empty that, well, there is no kind of empty that even begins to feel how I feel...I am empty. I am empty. I am empty.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com

“Remember, you are not a vessel of sadness; you are not a lost cause.”

— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com

“So you were never a saint And I’ve loved in shades of wrong We learn to live with the pain Mosaic broken hearts”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“And in the end we're all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love can heal our brokenness.”

— F Scott Fitgerald, facebook.com