heartbroken quotes for girls

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? ~Carl Sandburg, Good Morning America, 1928



Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind. ~Moses R. Kaufman



We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ~Robert Penn Warren, Segregation



And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei



The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ~Robert M. Pirsig



Every man is the son of his own works. ~Miguel de Cervantes



He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. ~Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands



Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot



Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor



We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist



I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth. ~Bernie Wilke, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998



Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. ~Thomas Carlyle



In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God - but a word invoked to explain the world. ~Prat de Lamartine



We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. ~Author Unknown



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club