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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Animal, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• The heart will break, but broken live on.

  Lord Byron

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

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• Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

  Rumi

  Heart, Love Is, Forever With You

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

  Violeta Parra

  Cute Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

  James Longstreet

  Blow, Effort, Panic

  James Longstreet, Civil War Classics (2015). “From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America”, p.440, Diversion Books

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

  Albert Camus

  Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

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• Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

  Miguel Indurain

  Broken Heart, Sports, Winning

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  The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Heart, Way

  FaceBook post by Charlie Sheen from Oct 29, 2016

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  Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

  Amy Poehler

  Love, Heart, People

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, People, Trying

  "'Every single thing I know, as of today': Author Anne Lamott shares life wisdom in viral Facebook post" by Erin Clements, www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

  LeBron James

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Marian Anderson

  Broken Heart, Integrity, Moving

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

  Joe Baca

  Real, Character, People

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• If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Hands, Egypt

  "Nineteen Eighty-four".

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