quotes on heartbreak

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. ~Author Unknown



I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 12



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero



Never fight fire from ego. ~Author Unknown



The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso



Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire



Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand



America is not just a country but a way. ~Carrie Latet



The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. ~Ashley Montague



When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters. ~George Savile



What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy



The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~Marya Mannes



Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony



You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ~Franklin P. Jones, referring to the atomic bomb You're booty-blinded. You know what that is? It's like being snow-blinded only it ain't no snow, it's a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy



The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. ~Matthew 8:20



As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar



When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ~Vance Law



But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young