“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”— Robin Benway, amazon.com
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over, 'Other people feel this way.'”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“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…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.com
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.com
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“Oh, this is pain, this is anguish! I faint, I fail. Now my body thaws; I am unsealed, I am incandescent.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com