What is the greatest lesson to learn from heartbreak?

“7 reasons. 1. Love Isn’t Everything. At the end of the day, most humans are on the hunt for love. The majority of us want to find a partner to share our lives with, which is a totally normal and respectable desire. However, it’s only when you experience a heartbreak that you realize that love isn’t everything. Only after you’ve had a loving relationship and lost it can you truly grasp the idea that love isn’t the magic answer to all the problems in your life. In fact, sometimes letting love go is the healthier option. A loving relationship should enhance your life, but it’s far from the most important aspect of it…”
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“Love can teach you a whole lot about life. But the best teacher is that of heartbreak. You don’t ever fully know what you have until you lose it and therefore can’t understand love until you’ve lost it. Heartbreak is life’s most effective teacher. Unfortunately, what it teaches us isn’t always accurate. We learn what we choose to interpret. There are, however, lessons that we should all take from falling into and out of love – lessons that are universal. If you learn these things from the ending of a loving relationship, then you should consider yourself to have made progress in your life. Here are 10 things love can teach us that nothing else truly can:…”
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"One of the greatest teachings of heartbreak is that of death. Heartbreak gives the opportunity to know death in a deeply intimate and personal manner, offering a dynamic range of emotions, thoughts, and sensations useful for both knowing this universal process of endings and the being that is experiencing them. Within heartbreak we may find ourselves in ways previously unknown to us."

"Impermanence of external circumstances on our life. Heartbreak does not truly mean our heart is broken, but refers to a feeling of loss and attachment to external circumstances. This immediately plummets us to a space of unknown and uncertainty because it interrupts what we had always known from past experiences. This is the moment of infinite possibilities to happen. Learn that in moments as such that we have a choice – to be miserable about our heartbreak or be joyful about our heartbreak."

"Heartbreak, along with the agony it carries, also carries innate gifts and lessons. Among the greatest is the gift of personal sovereignty and security. Heartbreak exposes our greatest insecurities, weaknesses, and fears. This is no fun for anyone, yet if we are brave enough and curious enough, these pains can be transmuted into profound levels of security, strength, and fearlessness. From here we have the potential to enter into a new relationship from our new ground, a ground of stable independence, allowing for a truly interdependent relationship. Heartbreak exposes our co-dependent, or dependent dynamics. It gives us the golden opportunity to face the truth, that we are ultimately...

"You are lucky if you get your heart broken in your lifetime. I can not imagine a life spent without knowing the excruciating pain/beauty/depth of feeling that goes along with this ride. I’m in my mid 60’s, and I think I’ve felt true heart break twice. It tears you open in a visceral way you did not know existed. Your heart never really ever heals. You get better, but your heart is scarred for life. And hopefully you emerge a more compassionate and empathetic human."

"Heartbreak allows us to be flexible and break mental habits of relying on the external world for our internal wellbeing.  It allows us to accept impermanence.  We get so comfortable in relationships, but they are guaranteed to end and heartbreak is inevitable.  Whether you break up or you die is basically the same thing - you still have to let go."

"Few words bring up as visceral of a reaction as ‘heartbreak’.  The feeling of having the heart ripped from the chest, leaving a painful void behind is palpable.  Yet to undergo this process of loss is one of the most fertile and potent experiences we can have.  Though painful, to emerge from heartbreak is to emerge with the empowerment and knowledge that what you thought you couldn’t live without, you can live without.  From this realization comes a unique type of growth and freedom."