Break Through Quotes - Page 2

• So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Kids, Ideas, Community

  "Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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• The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

  Alma Gluck

  Song, Art, Branches

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• I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

  John Fogerty

  Kids, Years, Two Year Olds

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• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Space, Ordinary

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• Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Wall, Integrity

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• 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.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Spring, Trying

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• The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

  Harvey Cushing

  Teacher, Educational, Stress

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

  Saint-John Perse

  Poetry, Habit, Poet

  Saint-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo (1971). “St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo”

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• The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

  Eric Metaxas

  Break, Dependent, Sermons

  Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Education, Children, Kids

  "'Collective' outrage over MSNBC promo". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Practice, Games

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• Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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• I have seen the sun break through
  to illuminate a small field
  for a while, and gone my way
  and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
  of great price, the one field that had
  treasure in it. I realize now
  that I must give all that I have
  to possess it. Life is not hurrying
  on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
  an imagined past. It is the turning
  aside like Moses to the miracle
  of the lit bush, to a brightness
  that seemed as transitory as your youth
  once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

  R. S. Thomas

  Past, Giving, Miracle

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.

  Mark Tobey

  Eggs, Important, Shells

  Mark Tobey, Wesley Wehr, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum (1988*). “Mark Tobey, a new look: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, February 19-March 27, 1988”

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• The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Hopeful, Doubt

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• When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

  Judith Wright

  Spiritual, And Love, Levels

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• 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.

  Robert Moss

  Opportunity, May, Faces

  Robert Moss (2011). “Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom”, p.177, New World Library

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• I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

  John J. Geddes

  Reflection, Moon, Light

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Lying, Political

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• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

  Antonin Artaud

  Light, Order, Darkness

  "The Theatre and Its Double". Book by Antonin Artaud, 1938.

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• Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Ideas, Two, Community

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• There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Memories, Grief

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• I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fighting, People, Wish

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