Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
—Albert Camus
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
—Mignon McLaughlin
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.
—Molly McAdams in From Ashes
Well, you can't have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.
—Leila Sales in Past Perfect
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed—its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
—Og Mandino
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.
—Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum