Break Quotes - Page 32

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say

You can't break what's broken already.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff