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    “The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
    ― Charlie Sheen
    tags: broken, heart, pretend
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  • #2
    “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
    ― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions
    tags: broken, love, quote, taylor-swift
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beautiful, broken, brokeness, change, connection, growing, learning, living, love, loving, perfection, perfectionism, seeing-people, souls, transformation, understanding
    320 likes

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  • #4
    Chimnese Davids
    “Behind these eyes
    there is a girl trapped within
    her pain – a girl feeling all the emotions
    of anger and sadness.
    She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)”
    ― Chimnese Davids, Muses of Wandering Passions
    tags: broken, eyes, sadness, symbolism
    115 likes

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  • #5
    Sanhita Baruah
    “Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
    ― Sanhita Baruah
    tags: alive, alone, broken, crying, cut, depressed, devastated, grief, life, loneliness, lonely, loss, love, madness, melancholy, mess, morose, nerve, sad, solitude, suicidal, suicide, suicide-attempt, unhappy, weeping
    137 likes

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  • #6
    Margaret Mitchell
    “What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: broken, fiction, remember
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    Julie Johnson
    “No amount of soul searching would fix my past. There was no magical Band-Aid I could stick on my heart, no special glue I could use to make myself whole again. I had shattered to pieces like a fragile vase on concrete; some fragments could be roughly cobbled back together, but many of my vital parts had simply turned to dust, pulverized and scattered by the first gust of wind.”
    ― Julie Johnson, Like Gravity
    tags: broken, damaged, heartbreak
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  • #8
    Krystal Sutherland
    “some things are more beautiful when they've been broken.”
    ― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
    tags: beauty, broken, kintsukuroi
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    Sanhita Baruah
    “What broke your heart so bad
    That you had to close every door,
    That you say you have a dark soul
    And can't utter the word 'love' anymore?”
    ― Sanhita Baruah
    tags: alone, break, broken, close, closed-doors, closed-heart, dark-soul, doors, grief, hbk, heartbreak, life, loneliness, lonely, lost, love, melancholy, memories, memory, moment, open, open-heart, poet, sad, self-love, soul, soul-talk, walls, what, who, wounded, writer, writers
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    Khadija Rupa
    “And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
    ― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
    tags: broken, broken-hearts, broken-promises, ego, he-quotes, hurt-quotes, khadija-rupa-quotes, missing-you, poetry-love, sadness-quotes, she-quotes, the-saddest-thing, they-quotes, unexpressed-feelings
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  • #11
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Repetition is an important part of learning. It is a vital factor in life lessons because each recurrence tends to challenge our earlier notions, resulting in continued contemplation and greater depths of understanding.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
    tags: contemplation, learning, life-lessons, repeating, repetition, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, understanding
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  • #12
    C.A.A. Savastano
    “The cost of forgetting history is reliving it.”
    ― C.A.A. Savastano
    tags: circular, cost, endless, history, reliving, repetition
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  • #13
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: choice, choices, dig, dug, familiar, familiarity, hole, holes, pit, problem, repetition, sabotage, self-sabotage, situation, stupid, stupidity, wisdom
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    Jodi Picoult
    “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: expectations, image, self-image
    1016 likes

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  • #15
    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Alison McGhee
    “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
    ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea
    tags: expectations, powerful, silence
    745 likes

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  • #17
    Bill Watterson
    “I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: expectations, humor
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  • #18
    Patricia McCormick
    “Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
    ― Patricia McCormick, Cut
    tags: cutting, disappointment, expectations, hope, life, strategy
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  • #19
    Charlotte Brontë
    “If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, expectations, false-belief, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, illusions, misconceptions, misogyny, stereotypes, women
    599 likes

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  • #20
    Jeff Kinney
    “You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.”
    ― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    tags: expectations
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  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: expect, expectations, hope, love, wish
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  • #22
    Lisa Kleypas
    “You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
    tags: enemy, expectations
    332 likes

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  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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  • #24
    Sharon Creech
    “What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”
    ― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
    tags: expectations, fear
    283 likes

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  • #25
    Steve Maraboli
    “Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: acceptance, commitment, expectations, love, motivational, respect, standard
    180 likes

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  • #26
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “It’s foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.”
    ― Ashwin Sanghi
    tags: chanakya, machiavelli
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  • #27
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
    4075 likes

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  • #29
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
    2760 likes

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  • #30
    “You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
    ― Rachel Ward, Numbers
    tags: end, gone, goodbye, leaving, lost, love, pain
    481 likes



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