Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
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Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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