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“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
“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
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
C.S. Lewis
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”
Tom Gates
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“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
“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”
Sheryl Swoopes
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
Erma Bombeck
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
Dalai Lama
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa
