Here Is How You're Going To Survive Heartbreak When It Feels Impossible

Here Is How You're Going To Survive Heartbreak When It Feels Impossible

Breathe.

Heidi PriebeDecember 19, 2016

1. You must let the pain visit.

2. You must allow it teach you.

3. You must not allow it overstay.

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

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What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?

— Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

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Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: ‘These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself.

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

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Pain is weakness leaving the body.

— Tera Lynn Childs, Oh. My. Gods.

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We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.

— Nayyirah Waheed and Warsan Shire, Kept Honey

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It's never the love that hurts you, it's the attachment to the idea of what it's supposed to be.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes.

— Paulo Coelho, Aleph

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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 someone else, our own stability goes out the window too.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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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

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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

— Andrea Gibson, Dive

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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.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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There is a layer of strength that falls upon the heart that is aching.

— R.H. Sin, Rest in the Mourning

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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.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good it felt. Then you remember that quote ‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all’ and you’re like, ‘okay, fine.'

— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love

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Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.

— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed: A Novel

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Just because someone rejected you doesn't mean everyone will. Sometimes good things are taken away from us so we can find better things.

— Rania Naim, All The Reminders You Need To Get You Through Anything In Life

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You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.

— Ryan O'Connell, 15 Guaranteed Things That Will Happen To You In Your 20s

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You don’t need someone else to forgive you. YOU need to forgive you.

— Sade Andria Zabala, 27 Ways I Survived 2016

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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.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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I always wondered why it was so easy For people to leave.
What I should have questioned was 'Why I wanted so badly for them to stay.'

— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

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With an empty heart, I am free again. For some things to start, some have to end

— Leona Lewis, Thunder

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I stop masturbating because it makes me cry.
I make bad art and keep it to myself. I make bad art and
share it with the internet.

— Trista Mateer, Tumblr

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Never underestimate the healing power of love. It is just as important for our survival as the food we eat, yet it’s free and available in unlimited supply. Love is the strongest medicine.

— Timber Hawkeye, Buddhist Boot Camp

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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

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We're all a little broken, but the last time I checked broken crayons still color the same.

— Broken, FB Fanpage

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Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.

— Heidi Priebe, All Of The Things That Can Break Your Heart (Besides A Person)

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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.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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When your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you're still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That's life. The confusion and fear? That's there to remind you, that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for.

— Nathan Scott, One Tree Hill

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The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.

— Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

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