Quotes of: Broken-heart Keyword

Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typi...

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is ...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

So it is with the places preparing to teach us. It's only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern—when it begins to realize its boundlessness—that its newly adamant pulse bangs on the walls of its cage and is bruised by its enclo...

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

If someone were to autopsy her heart, they'd find traces of life, evidence of eons gone by. Times when she'd been able to feel and the feelings left imprints. Maybe her heart was wearing a cast. Maybe it wasn't sclerosed at all but atrophied, shrunke...

Stephanie Kallos

A man combs his hair every morning -- why not his heart?

Chinese

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Chinese

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Chinese

Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.

Chinese

Words that come from the heart stay warm three winters long.

Chinese

Whoever lets himself be led by the heart will never lose his way.

Egyptian

Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.

Irish

Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

Saudi Arabian

So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth,...

Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

We have no way of knowing, of course, why some are born in health and affluence, while others enter broken bodies or broken homes, or emerge into a realm of war or hunger. So we cannot give definite meaning to our place in the world, or to our neighb...

The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. ...

Marcel Proust

Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense. Shepherd Book: No, no. You-you-you can't... River: So we'll integrate non-progre...

Ben Edlund

Elvis: Yo, man, I ain't askin' nobody nothin'! Nick, Slevin, Clark Kent, whatever the fuck your name is. The Virgin Mary herself could com waltzin' up in here with her fine ass, titties hangin' out and everything, and if she tells me your name is Jes...

Lucky Number Slevin

Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.

Dead Man Rising

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

A Familiar Rain