Break Quotes - Page 28

• Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Broken, Stronger

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• Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Broken, Bones

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.874

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• The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Rely Upon, Made

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.157, Courier Corporation

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• Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Hands, Play

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• In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Space, Law

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

  Julia Child

  Eggs, Giving, Your Best Friend

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• Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Country, Cities, People

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• Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Spiritual, Ocean

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• Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Night, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

  Carole Radziwill

  Life Changing, Night, Thinking

  Carole Radziwill (2007). “What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Female, Tornadoes

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• Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

  Sheila Bender

  Dream, Break Through, Poetry

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• I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Giving, People

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• The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.

  Joseph Parker

  Hurt, Sex, Men

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• God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Roots

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• To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Praying, Failing

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

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• It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Heart, Grieving

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• A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Fall, People

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not broken. You break again
  and again because
  
  that's what breaking means.
  To be whole.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Mean, Broken, Again And Again

  Brenda Shaughnessy (2008). “Human Dark with Sugar”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

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• Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

  Paul Hawken

  Luck, Crafts, Enterprise

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, Simon & Schuster

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Travel, Fear, Giving

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

  Pope Francis

  Drama, Men, Idols

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Oneness

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