A Quote by Dani Shapiro

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

Dani Shapiro

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Heartache Ourselves Pain Protect

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Dani Shapiro
American - Author
Born: April 10, 1962

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

Dani Shapiro

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

Dani Shapiro

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Joel Dicker

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others.

Sharon Salzberg

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

Bruce Schneier

That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards.

Andrew Strauss

I've seen the struggles and the heartache and the pain that goes along with being in the fight game.

Samoa Joe

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

Jocelyn Murray

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

Benji Madden

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Pema Chodron

You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love.

Demetria McKinney

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

Tig Notaro

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

Wayne Muller

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.