Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Anne Lamott

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Aesop

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

John Carroll

The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

Chuck Hagel

What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy.

Deborah Cox

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart.

Douglas MacArthur

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Dwight L. Moody

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

Danielle Steel

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.