It takes bravery to end a relationship.
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken!
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
