“We don't have a set of formal recommendations. What Sen. Bennett has been saying publicly is that it wouldn't hurt to have a few days of food on hand, a little bit of cash.”
Don Meyer
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks
“If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.”
Sarah McLachlan
“We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.”
Maxwell Maltz
