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#1

“Once a heart breaks…it doesn’t just grow back. It’s not a lizard’s tail. It’s more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it’s not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn’t make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don’t mend and they don’t heal. They just don’t work that way.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

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#2

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

tags: children, epiphany, holocaust, thoughts

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#3

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: abuse, abuser, conspiracy-of-silence, oppressor, torment, trauma, victim

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#4

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: beauty, earth, heaven, life, reason, truth, understand, wisdom

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#5

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
― Anton Chekhov

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#6

“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: belief

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#7

“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
― Anton Chekhov

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#8

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: literature, medicine

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#9

“Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: appetites, conspicuous-consumption, dish, emotions, facebook, feelings, food, instagram, myspace, path, photographs, photography, photography-quotes, showoff, social-networking, social-networks, status-updates, technology, thoughts, twitter, whereabouts

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#10

“I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, aura, beg, beggar, beggars, belief, believe-in-yourself, breakthrough, condescend, condescending, condescension, content, contented, conviction, equanimity, excel, fame, hiss, honor, honour, humility, individuality, meek, michael-bassey-johnson, money, much-ado-about-nothing, mystic, popularity, power-behind, pride, progress, reserved, self-reliance, self-respect, snake, unpopularity, withdrawal, withdrawn

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#11

“There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.”
― David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

tags: comfort, friendship

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#12

“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: altruism, holden-caulfield, phonies, the-catcher-in-the-rye

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#13

“Diplomacy, Democracy, and parenting are very much the same. It's an act of creating and maintaining control over people without them becoming aware of it while rousing their allegiance through fear or manipulation to protect your right to continue taking advantage of them and their loyalty.”
― Mitch Alexander, In the Name of the Son and Daughter

tags: healing-trauma

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#14

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
― Sarah Dessen

tags: inspirational, strength, tough-times

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#15

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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#16

“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

tags: chaos, lost-love, love

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#17

“Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.”
― Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams

tags: breakup, divorce, lost-love, separation

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#18

“I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: death, lost-love, love-and-loss

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#19

“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
― Nan Goldin

tags: art, loss, lost-love, photography

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#20

“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”
― Ashley D. Wallis, Leaping

tags: hurt-feelings, lost-love

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#21

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”
― Mona Simpson

tags: lost-love, love

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#22

“And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.”
― Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

tags: fear, lost-love

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#23

“Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so dark, void of sound and then I heard you sing again—and it exploded. Everything came crashing down on me that I’d been holding in, and then I was just a mess. But I wasn’t suffering in silence anymore. I was suffering from the impenetrable sound of your voice on repeat in my head.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Finding Perfection

tags: finding-yourself, lost-love, love, loveiends-turned-lovers, music, singing

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#24

“Well, yes. I definitely consider myself to be your one that got away.”
― Tyler Oakley, Binge

tags: binge, lost-love, love

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#25

“You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.”
― Ama H.Vanniarachchy

tags: letting-go, lost-love, love, regret

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#26

“When you run out of love, it’s really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you…”
― Munia Khan

tags: hard, heart, heartache, lost, lost-love, love, love-quote, love-quotes, philosophy, run, run-out, spiritual, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, understand, wisdom

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#27

“Life is an act and we are the actors of life. Some are able to act well but some are crippled by the fear of fear. Be it good or bad, great or mediocre, we all do take steps in life; sometimes out of ignorance, out of pain, out of love, out of hatred, out of comfort and sometimes out of jealousy. We may slip as we take these steps in life but when we realize what we should have done, we ought to regret and take action”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

tags: action-time, desires, fear, ignorance, lost-love, love-quotes, mistakes, mistakes-quotes, mistakes-we-make, out-of-hatred, regrets, regretting, repentance, taking-actions-on-your-desires, understanding-our-steps, what-we-should-have-done

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#28

“And I keep saying I miss who I was when I was with him .Why did it have to end ?Well maybe this person crossed your path to show that deep down ,this part of who you felt you were with him is in you ,always was,always will be and that maybe that person you were ,is the best version of yourself that you could be.”
― Amira -Fadil

tags: lost-love

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#29

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

tags: breaking-up, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, breakups, death, death-and-dying, death-and-sickness, death-of-a-loved-one, friendship-lost, goodbye, goodbyes, life, life-and-living, life-philosophy, life-quotes, loss-of-a-child, loss-of-a-loved-one, loss-of-family, loss-of-hope, lost-love, pain, painful-memories, sudden-death

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#30

“Though I love you to the core of my being, so thoroughly that every cell comprising me aches to be near you, I must accept that we can never be together. For our existence parallels the sun and the moon—a temptation in constant, beautiful view, yet if the sun were ever to kiss the moon it would devour the heavenly orb whole. Oh, my darling, if only I were the moon! Then I would dare taste your lips and be happy for my last and final joy! But alas, I am the sun, and I will not venture to destroy the one I love.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: forbidden-love, lost-love, love, love-letter, love-quotes, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, starcrossed-love

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