“Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert232
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Geoff Boycott (1940) cricket player of England
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Tina Turner (1939) singer, dancer, actress, and author
"What's Love Got to Do with It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3h9DNHNOM
“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
“Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
When I want to run away,
I drive off in my car.
But whichever way I go,
I come back to the place you are.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
by means of prayers
Kanzul `Ummal, Volume7, Tradition 18973
Shi'ite Hadith