{"quotes":[{"text":"My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.","author":"Steph Campbell","tags":["hurting-heart","loss","sadness"],"id":29133,"author_id":"Steph+Campbell"},{"text":"Love hurts because it holds hearts.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["because","heart","heartache","heartbroken","hearts","hold","hurting-heart","love","love-hurts","love","love","lovers","six","six-word-memoirs","six-word-story"],"id":34609,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"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":"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":"As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["accountability","confrontation","discussion","healing-shame","honesty","hurting","hurting-heart","love","pain","responsibility","self-love","wounded","woundedness","wounds","wounds-to-the-heart"],"id":115057,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.","author":"Cathy Burnham Martin","tags":["forgive","forgiveness","human","human-nature","humanity","hurt","hurt-feelings","hurting-heart","injustice","love","sin","sinner","trauma"],"id":130962,"author_id":"Cathy+Burnham+Martin"},{"text":"There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly.One day you are just a member.It is “The life changing events club.”The fee to join the club is hurt beyond belief, payable in full, up front for a lifetime membership.The benefit of the club is a new found perspective on life, and a deep understanding that you may not be happy about your current situation, but you can be happy in your current situation.The only rule to the club is that you cannot tell anyone that you are a member.The club does not provide a directory of its members, but when you look into a member’s eye, you can tell that they too are part of the club. Members are allowed to exchange that brief eye contact that says: “I didn’t know.”Being a member of this club is the last thing that anyone initially wants in their life.Being a member of this club is the best thing that ever happens to a person in their life, and there is not a person in the club that would ever give up their membership.If you really look and know what you are looking for you can spot the clubs members; they are the ones that provide a random act of kindness and do something for someone who can never repay them for what they have done. They are the people spreading joy and optimism and lifting people’s spirits even when their own heart has been broken.I have paid my dues; my lifetime membership arrived today, not by mail, but by a deep inner feeling that I cannot describe.It is the best club that I never wanted to be part of. But I am glad that I am a member.","author":"JohnA Passaro","tags":["grief","hurting-heart","life-changing-events","perspective-is-a-gift"],"id":172044,"author_id":"JohnA+Passaro"},{"text":"We never love a person after judging them because that's not love then, But today's life lesson is to judge a person before falling in love with that person, It's hard to trust anyone in this cruel world where all are determined to hurt you by any mean.","author":"Debolina Bhawal","tags":["broken-heart-speaks","hurting-heart","judgement"],"id":187004,"author_id":"Debolina+Bhawal"},{"text":"I know this is love ' but how can be you so sure ' can't you see I'm alone, suffering nd it really hurts , I'm dying everyday a little bit , tell me any other disease where u face all this nd it has no cure buddy , I'm trapped.","author":"jagvir ji","tags":["hate","hurting-heart","love","love"],"id":222114,"author_id":"jagvir+ji"},{"text":"I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?","author":"Carrie Fisher","tags":["hurting-heart","love","relatable","self-esteem","understanding"],"id":254059,"author_id":"Carrie+Fisher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}