Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Bruce Lee

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Eckhart Tolle

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Eckhart Tolle

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

Courtney Love

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

Gib Lewis

Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I've lost interest them and I don't care what they do anymore.

Sara Shepard

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

Guy Spier

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

Ed Markey

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

Chris Pine

I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.

Anne Lamott

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Anna Akhmatova

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Claire Danes

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

Drew Houston

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

Ann Aguirre

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Ann Aguirre

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Ann Aguirre

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

Annie Proulx

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Anne Sexton

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Anne Sexton

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

Alice Sebold

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.