You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
— Alfred Adler
Scandalous Heal A Broken Heart quotations
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences.
It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
Love can heal a broken heart.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed.
But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
I can heal a broken heart with a smile.
I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.
Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.
A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.
When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you.
Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken.
Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken.
Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.