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50 Quotes You Need In Your Life If You've Recently Had The Shit Kicked Out Of You By Love

Because it happens to the best of the best of us. 
Heidi Priebe
June 16, 2016
“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Relationships, Heartbreak
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward
“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Overcoming, Overcoming Obstacles, Rising To Challenges, Perserverance, Self-Direction
“you were a beautiful time in my life,
and if that's all you'll ever be
then that's okay.
Not all art is destined to hang on the
same walls forever.”
— Poetry, Poems, Art, Words (@k.towne.jr), K. Towne. Jr
Tagged: Poetry, Prose, Instagram
“There is always something left to love.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Time, Life
“i think 
we would all be
just a little
less sad
if we came to 
the realization
that loving
doesn't always 
mean staying.”
— Author. Lover. Thinker. (@marisa_crane), Marisa Crane
Tagged: Poetry, Prose, Instagram
“Trust that some of the best days of your life haven’t even happened yet. There are going to be parties that leave you dancing until 6am, spontaneous adventures that teach you more than you ever learned in a classroom. There are going to be nights that will stay burned beneath your eyelids, memories that dance underneath your skin. Life is going to exceed your expectations, it is going to astonish you with its timing.

Remember — you have not felt it all.
The world still has so much left for you”
— Bianca Sparacino, Some Of The Best Days Of Your Life Haven’t Happened Yet
Tagged: Bianca Sparacino, Life, Love, Memories
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Healing, strength
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, real love, Reciprocation
“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.
So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Withholding Love
“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Bravery, Courage, strength, Heartbreak
“ You're so outraged and surprised this shitty thing happened to you that there's a piece of you that isn't yet convinced it did. You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reverses its course. Anyone would be. It's the reason I've had to narrate my own stories of injustice about seven thousand times, as if by raging about it once more the story will change and by the end of it I won't still be the woman hanging on the end of the line.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Pain, Injustice, Anger
“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”
— Ari Eastman, Things I Do When I Start Thinking About You
Tagged: Endings, Acceptance, Moving On, Love
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”
— Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness
Tagged: Pain, Embracing Pain, Suffering, Grief, Breakups, Moving On
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Love, Change
“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.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Love, Dating
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
— Daphne du Maurier, First Love Quotes and Sayings Collection by FQ
Tagged: Love, First Love
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Tagged: Love, Relationships