As a human being, we do get hurt once in awhile, sometimes a lot. I have gotten hurt and betrayed by some people and it has been hard to get over it. Only time can heal these wounds. The interesting thing is, we often get hurt by people we often are closest to us, our acquaintance and barely known people do not hurt us like the one we know the most do.  See also: How to heal hurting heart.

While no one knows how not to get hurt emotionally by someone, as we human tend to be social people who needs social relationships. However, we can take slow with time and read these inspiring quotes to take one day at the time.

I thought of leaving you all with a few quotes by a few wise people, on the subject to ponder over.

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
Joan Lunden

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
Lewis B. Smedes

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca

“The folks you help won’t remember it and the folks you hurt won’t ever forget it.”
Bill Clayton

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
Dalai Lama

“If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances”
Julia Soul

“When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.”
Jane Fonda

“Pain in the present is experienced as hurt, pain in the past is remembered as anger.”
Gaelic Proverb

Did you ever wonder why the one closest you, can hurt you the most? Have you been hurt by friend, lor oved ones? How do you pick yourself up again? What suggestions would you give?

Zengirl