22 Quotes to Ease The Pain of a Broken Heart

We allow ourselves to love because it’s worth the risk. Even though there is the chance of loss or hurt, we take the leap again and again because love is one of the best parts of being alive. We don’t do it because it’s easy, we do it because connection makes everything brighter.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon.

When the situation is good, enjoy it. When the situation is bad, transform it. When the situation cannot be transformed, transform yourself.

Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

This relationship affected you more than you are letting yourself believe. The ending hurt you more than you acknowledged, and you need to process that. Your continued interest in this person means there’s something about the relationship that is still unresolved, and it is probably some kind of closure or acceptance that you need to find for yourself.

Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy. Always.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.

Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

Healing comes in waves, and maybe today the wave hits the rocks. And that’s OK, that’s OK, darling.  You are still healing. You are still healing.

Heartbreak delivers your purpose. If you are brave enough to accept that delivery and seek out the people doing that particular world-changing work, you find your people.  

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

Often, what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.