quotes for a broken heart
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
During the feminist revolution, the battle lines were again simple. It was easy to tell the enemy, he was the one with the penis. This is no longer strictly true. Some men are okay now. We're allowed to like them again. We still have to keep them in line, of course, but we no longer have to shoot them on sight. ~Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips for Girls, 1983
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. ~J. Ramsay MacDonald We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ~George Lucas
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 15
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it. ~Winifred Kirkland
If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events. ~Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ~Elbert Hubbard
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
