I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
I thought when love for you died, I should die._x000D_ _x000D_ It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
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