S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes we have to make tough choices. For me, it’s always going to be bittersweet. I got a lot but I gave up a lot. You just have to decide what matters most to you.”
Source: Breaking the Rules
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the thing that we have to pretend the most is that this actually works.”
“Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.”
“Sometimes we have to pull down the heavens in order to reach for the stars.”
“Sometimes we have to push people aside, distance ourselves from others to remain happy. There are people that will try to place you in the darkness they live in, so there not alone. Their objectives so simple, as transparent as the life they live. You’ll walk pass them without a care, smiling when it’s time to leave.”
“Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.”
“Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom before we're willing to rise up and overcome our trials.”
Source: Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
“Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.”
Source: French Lessons
“Sometimes, we have to say goodbye to the love we wish could stay forever.”
“Sometimes we have to slow down to enjoy the smallest things that we wouldn’t ever take the time to notice.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
“Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.”
Source: Just One Night, Part 3: Binding Agreement
“Sometimes we have to stop at certain stations before reaching the destination. But don't settle in, keep going.”
“Sometimes we have to surrender to something if we’re eventually going to have victory over it.”
“Sometimes we have to think of the worst so we can figure out how to pick up the pieces and move on. Don't let life slap you with a cold shock; consider all the negative outcomes so you can live a more positive life. You'll make wiser choices and not dwell on all the perils that can befall you. - William”
Source: One Second
“Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.”
Source: About a Girl
“Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.”
“Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...”
Source: The Road Taken
“Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?”
Source: The Religious Life of Theological Students
“Sometimes we help each other because we need a surrogate activity.”
“Sometimes, we hit the wrong notes like clashing echoes. Yet sometimes, just by chance, the notes we played for one another made unexpected music, like this.”
Source: The Beast Player
“Sometimes we hit the wrong notes like clashing echoes.
Yet sometimes, just by chance, the notes we played for one another made unexpected music, like this.
Her eyes filled with tears.
As long as the life you have given me continues, let me stand on the shore of that great abyss and play. Let me pluck my harp, note by note, and speak to the creatures of earth and sky, so that I may hear music as yet unknown.”
Source: The Beast Player
“Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.”
“Sometimes we hold on to that hurt, imprisoning ourselves, asking: Will these people ever understand the pain I had to endure? It wasn’t anymore about what they have done, or will any person ever show remorse, but about the question: Will they know the hurt a small girl had to go through night after night, crying herself to sleep?”
Source: Redeeming Soul
“Sometimes we humans are like brainless chickens, we run around aimlessly and to no avail, we seem to be looking for something that we don't even know what it is, some sort of missing piece, which isn't even there. Why don't most of us realise that life isn't about looking for the missing piece, but actually to learn live with the fact that one might never find it and still have a happy and fulfilled life nonetheless?”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.”
“Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”
Source: Death Before Daylight
“Sometimes we just gotta learn to accept the situations or the outcome we are in and we have to remind ourselves that the things we have already done cannot be undone, but try to correct them as we move forward with our lives.”
“Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can't explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and we don't always have a reason why. Our job is to try and make some good come out of it.”
Source: Betwixt
“Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”
Source: Lost & Found
“Sometimes we just have to get out of our own way to find the answers we seek; sometimes we have to trust that we know and are capable of more than we realise.”
Source: Lovers Dreamers Fighters
“Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.”
Source: Your Life Still Counts: How God Uses Your Past To Create A Beautiful Future
“Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Sometimes we just have to take the time to notice something to see how amazing it is.”
Source: Promise to Marry
“Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.”
“Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.”
“Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can’t see for ourselves, and then we change forever.”
Source: My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
“Sometimes we just need someone to
simply be there. Not to fix anything,
but to let us feel supported and seen.”
Source: Long Live Life: A Gentle Philosophy for Meaning, Happiness, and Human Connection
“Sometimes, we just need someone we can trust with the darker moments of our life. I’ll be that person for you.”
Source: Ask Me To Game
“Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.”
“Sometimes we just need to put down our phones, close our eyes and take a few deep breaths. Ideas are often in flight patterns around our brains, just waiting for clearance to land.”
“Sometimes we just sit quietly and look at the world around us. One moment the world looks like it is. In the next moment, it's something completely different. There are things we clearly see but there are others that we never expect to appear. Suddenly, we realize that life is a matter of perspective. To effectively change ourselves, we must first change our perceptions. But no one has the right to dictate to us what to do, say or perceive.”
“Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.”
“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.”
Source: Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise
“Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have come and why.”
“Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.”
“Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.”
“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”