Pema Chodron Quotes

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

The heart was made to be broken.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Only love can break your heart.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

So I’m putting my defenses up, cause I don’t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I’d have a heart attack.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.