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When You Miss Them But You Know You Should Forget Them

When You Miss Them But You Know You Should Forget Them

Your heart is fractured, but it's still valuable.

The people who could not love us back were never meant to.

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

Love Unrequited Love Heartbreak Destiny

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You are not defined by the people who walk away from you.

— Trista Mateer, Honeybee

People Who Leave Lost Love Heartbreak

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Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

— James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

Dating Almost Love Heartbreak

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Here you are covered in cracks from falling and not being caught. Cracks from loving someone incapable of reciprocating everything you gave them.

— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Love Unrequited Love Heartbreak

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We go days without having a meaningful conversation and I used to miss you so much when that happened but it never seemed like you missed me and I guess because of it, I stopped missing you.

— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill Love Feelings Heartbreak

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If you want something different, you have to stop accepting what you’re used to.

— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

Dating Relationships Love Heartbreak

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I gave you the sun but you wanted the moon. When I gave you the moon, you wanted the stars.

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

Love Heartbreak

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Sometimes you have to walk away from people, not because you don't care, but because they don't.

— life fact, via twitter.com

Standards caring Moving On

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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)

Love Heartbreak Healing strength

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I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.

— Rania Naim, I Wonder If I’ll Ever Stop Loving The Wrong People

Rania Naim Thought Catalog Love Loving The Wrong People Fixing People Heartbreak

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Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and also to spread itself across the world, in wave after wave of love and grace and humanity.

— Elizabeth Gilbert, DISCOVERING FIRE FOR THE SECOND TIME...

Broken Hearts Sadness Heartbreak Love Hearts Compassion

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and in the end, letting
go was a lot like finding
love. i had to learn to
say goodbye to the one
who gave me the courage
to say hello.

— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

Letting Go Relationships Courage When Things Go Wrong Hello And Goodbye

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It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

— Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

Growing Up True Believer Moving On Forever Lost Relationships Heartbreak Best Of Sparks

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You know, I guess I've been heart-broken too many times. And then I recovered. So now, you know, from the start I make no effort because I know it’s not going to work out, I know it’s not going to work out.

— Celine, Before Sunset

Love Heartbreak Effort

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If they ask you about me, tell them: 'She was the only person that loved me with honesty, and I broke her.

— Unknown, You Destroyed Me

Regret Heartbreak Love

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Forgive me but I need to be loved too. Forgive me but I cant wait around for you. Forgive me if I found a man who understands just what I need

— Leona Lewis, Forgive Me

forgiveness Moving On Heartbreak

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People who leave are people you shouldn't miss.

— Jacob Geers, All The Reminders You Need To Get You Through Anything In Life

Heartbreak Exes Missing Someone

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I screamed, you didn’t hear me. I walked away, you didn’t chase.

— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

Heartbreak Sad goodbye

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Your heart is fractured but it's still valuable.

— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Love Broken Heart Heartbreak

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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

— John Green, Paper Towns

Leaving Leaving Home Moving On Saying Goodbye My Favorites

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