Broke Quotes - Page 5

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

Never run back to what broke you.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.