{"author":"Jocelyn Soriano","author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"When we lose a loved one, whether by a broken relationship or by unexpected death, the most difficult part we experience is the vacuum of loss we feel in our hearts.All of a sudden, a very significant part of our life, maybe the biggest or most important part is taken away. There is no immediate replacement. What we have left is just a BIG VOID, an empty space, a black hole we cannot understand. We feel hollow, like our hearts have suddenly been taken away.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken-heart","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","healing","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","love"],"id":14523,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["broken","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","heartache","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt","hurt-feelings","hurting","hurting-heart","inspirational","life","life-lessons"],"id":52384,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"We are fragile beings,yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt,and as though we couldn't hurt other people.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken-heart","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","healing","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","love"],"id":97036,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you offer everything to God. And you wait, with faith you see all things anew – light shines out from darkness, happiness grows through every pain, and all things become indeed so very beautiful in His time.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["beautiful-in-his-time","beauty","broken-heart","brokenness","compassion","compassion","despair","devotional","faith","happiness","healing","healing","hope","inspirational","inspirational","jesus","jesus","joy","joy","loss","loss-of-love","love","love","pain","pain","suffering","suffering-life","suffering","tenderness"],"id":97364,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"God has made the Universe and all that is in it, can He ever fail to give us anything that we ask of Him today?","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["catholic","christian","compassion","faith","prayer","providence-of-god","providence","spirituality","tomorrow","worry"],"id":100196,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","dating","faith","healing","heartache","heartbreak","heartbroken","hope","hurt","hurt-feelings","hurting","hurting-heart","inspirational","life","life-lessons","love","romance"],"id":105875,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced with love. A love that enters into their own fears and frailty, a love that suffers with them and stays with them through their darkest hour.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["broken-heart","brokenness","compassion","despair","devotional","faith","inspirational","inspirational","loss","loss-of-love","love","love","suffering","suffering-life","suffering"],"id":164283,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken-heart","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","healing","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","love"],"id":189649,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken-heart","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","healing","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","love"],"id":194636,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"},{"text":"Saying goodbye doesn't mean you need to forget,It doesn't mean you were never loved.It doesn't mean you're weak,It doesn't mean you didn't try hard enough.","author":"Jocelyn Soriano","tags":["breakup","broken-heart","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearted","healing","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","love"],"id":203950,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Soriano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}