quotes about broken hearts and letting go

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White



Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. ~Jessi Lane Adams



What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours. ~Helga Bergold Gross



Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus



Habit rules the unreflecting herd. ~William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822



I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown



It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ~Franklin P. Jones



There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. ~Ecclesiastes 2:24



How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo



The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. ~Author Unknown



Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill



A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valery



People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~Thich Nhat Hanh



As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations



Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. ~Jim Backus



Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ~Victor Hugo



Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards



There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. ~John Ruskin



I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. ~John D. Rockefeller