Nia Long Quotes

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

You can love someone with all your heart for all the right reasons, and in a moment they can choose to walk away. love 'em anyway.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

The heart was made to be broken.

Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By repressing it you will destroy something that is growing. The heart is meant to be broken. It's purpose is to melt into tears and evaporate. When the heart has evaporated exactly in the same place where the heart was, you come to know the deeper heart.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.