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To Every Beautifully Broken Girl, Read These Quotes When You're Feeling Down

It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so dam familiar. 
Kirsten Corley
January 27, 2017
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart, Failed Attempt, Love, Relationships, Relationships & Dating
“All the broken people
I know
are also the kindest.

I guess when you have been
through terrible suffering
you do not want anyone else
to have to endure it.

Especially when you know
from experience
how good a person
can be at hiding it.”
— Nikita Gill, Kindest
“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”
— Greg Behrendt, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
Tagged: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Pain, Sadness, Breaking Up, Breakups
“You can't break what's already broken. ”
— Six Word Story, Six word story
“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”
— passionatelypsycho, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Brokenness, Leaving The Past Behind
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.”
— Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me
Tagged: Home, broken, Healing, Memories
“All the broken hearts in the world still beat.”
— Ingrid Michaelson, Ingrid Michaelson - Girls Chase Boys (An Homage to Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible") - OFFICIAL
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Moving On, Healing
“We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home.
”
— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Tagged: Love, Home, Finding Your Partner , Journey of Love
“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breaking Up, Broken Heart, Numbness
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that only keep us in fear.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Protect, broken, hurt, Heartache, Life
“I don't trust easily, and I don't give second chances. I'm messy. I'm emotional. I love hard and get upset about little things. I take everything personally. I want to fix everyone, even if they're not broken.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Trust, Emotional, Messy, broken, Fixing
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: broken, Broken Woman, Love, Blind, Love Too Much
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half upon you to fill you whole. I risked it all just to dream you complete and catch you one day free in the wild.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Broken Pieces, Broken People, Missing Parts, Risks And Values, Complete
“'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things. ”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Break Me, Love, Addicted To Broken Things, R.M Drake
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: said to exes, Broken Heart
“The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In search for The Great Perhaps
Tagged: said to exes, World, Beautiful, People
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Break, broken, Heartbroken
“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, Imperfection
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
— Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken wings, fly
“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Heartbroken
“A woman's heart shouldn't be judged by the amount of times it has been broken, but more for its strength to know when to walk away.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken
“I am the kind of empty that comes only when it’s known that I will never be filled again. The kind of empty that, well, there is no kind of empty that even begins to feel how I feel...I am empty. I am empty. I am empty.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Without You, I Am The Kind Of Broken That Can’t Be Fixed
Tagged: Empty, Alone, Loneliness
“I am the kind of broken that only comes when so many pieces are shattered off the whole that it forgets it ever painted a picture at all.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Without You, I Am The Kind Of Broken That Can’t Be Fixed
Tagged: broken, Shattered Pieces, Not Whole
“Remember, you are not a vessel of sadness; you are not a lost cause.”
— Bianca Sparacino, For The Girls With Broken Hearts, Don’t Be Afraid To Love Again
Tagged: Bianca Sparacino
“So you were never a saint
And I’ve loved in shades of wrong
We learn to live with the pain
Mosaic broken hearts”
— Taylor Swift, State Of Grace
Tagged: Relationships, Broken Heart
“And in the end we're all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love can heal our brokenness. ”
— F Scott Fitgerald, FB Fanpage
Tagged: Love, broken, Life, Relationships
“We're all a little broken, but the last time I checked broken crayons still color the same.”
— Broken, FB Fanpage
Tagged: broken, Healing, Love, Self Worth
“I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: soulmate, Understanding, broken