“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”Tagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart
“Things are very often not quite what they seem. Losses are often the most important turning points, pain often the most effective teacher, fear the most poignant informant for what we really care about.”Tagged: Pain, Growth, Moving Forward
“Not every fear feeling or negative thought is an invitation to explore it to a resolutive end.”Tagged: Fear, Pain, Thoughts, Negativity
“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…”Tagged: Love, Hatred, Self-hatred, Self-Sabotage, Co-dependency
“The feeling of being 'lost' isn't what happens when you go off-path, it's when you forfeit control. It's what happens when you don't want to accept the course of events that have unfolded. Being found again is a matter of owning what happened to you and continuing to write the story.”Tagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth
“Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.”Tagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth, Inspirational
“Anything that exists in your life exists because you created it. Anything that persists does so because you are feeding it.”Tagged: Pain, Prolonging Pain, Challenges
“It's never the love that hurts you, it's the attachment to the idea of what it's supposed to be.”Tagged: Love, Attachment, Pain
“The core of every emotional issue is the belief that it's not okay.”Tagged: emotions, Emotion, Belief, Perception, Pain
“Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don't choose whether or not you'll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.”Tagged: Pain, Growth, Life, Suffering, Choice
“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.”Tagged: Love, Growth, Pain, hurt, Breakups
“Potential unrealized becomes pain.”Tagged: Pain, Growth, Self-Development, Potential, Unrealized Potential
“The pain of not having love is the pain of your heart being closed.”Tagged: Love, Pain, Closing Yourself Off To Love, Loneliness, Accepting Love
“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.”Tagged: Pain, Loss, The future, Mourning, Moving On
“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.”Tagged: Loss, Pain, Love, Worthiness, Feeling Worthy
“Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.”Tagged: Tiredness, Exhaustion, Mental Exhaustion, Resistance, Pain
“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”Tagged: Feeling, Emotion, Processing Emotion, Pain, Numbness
“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.”Tagged: Pain, Healing, Emotion, Feeling