This week, we tackle a tough topic. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, let’s talk about the flip side of love (or is it?) - heartbreak.

Here are some quotes for people who may be in love recovery mode this week. Remember, heartbreak is essentially positive. It means love stopped by for a visit.

It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.
Anonymous

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
Anonymous

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Anonymous

The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Anonymous

Love is unconditional, relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier