S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“So many of us love tragic drama, rainy days, tearjerker movies. We adore cherry blossoms--we even hold festivals in their honor--preferring them to equally lovely flowers because they die young. (The Japanese, who love sakura flowers most of all, attribute this preference to mono no aware, which means a desired state of gentle sorrow brought about by "the pathos of things" and "a sensitivity to impermanence").”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“So many of us suffer in silence, without any support, with our trauma wounds and shame for company.
You are NOT alone”
Source: Inner Child Healing: Heal Your Wounds. Train Your Mind. Create A New You.
“So many of us who choose this work come from backgrounds of pain and fear that have been instrumental in calling us to now co-suffer with others as they find the courage to approach their wounds.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.”
“So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...”
“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.”
“So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.”
“So many other people are saying #NotMyPresident [on Donald Trump].”
“So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?”
“So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.”
“So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.”
“So many paths have led me astray . . . But now things are going to be different. I don’t know what life is, but it is not loneliness.”
Source: Marta Oulie
“So many people accuse and mistreat others just because of their present state of life, as if life is just a one day journey, and they forget that the story line can change tomorrow!”
“So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits.”
Source: No Limits: The Will to Succeed
“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”
“So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.”
“So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.”
“So many people and so many diaries. Some are full of trite details of daily routines, while others diligently guard what our past selves thought to be our dearest and most important memories. Some become deeply cherished heirlooms passed down from generation to generation, while others are consumed by the insatiable quicksand of history, the names of those who wrote them vanishing like the final gentle whisper of the early autumn wind. Yet every diary—no matter how boring or gripping it is—tells a story and creates meaning where there was none. If used wisely, that meaning helps us to better understand this ridiculously complicated world through the stories of ourselves and others.”
“So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.”
“So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.”
“So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?”
“So many people are close-minded. They aren't open with themselves. I want to be that punch in the face that says, "Who cares!" The more people try to hide sexuality, the more it's going to be brought up.”
“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.”
“So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.”
“So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.”
“So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.”
“So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.”
“So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.”
“So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.”
“So many people are living in the past, now... REACTING to PAST memories, projections, judgements, and experiences.
Few people embrace, and live, in the the reality of this only moment, NOW.
This blocks rebuilding a better identity and self-image.
It also blocks rebuilding, repairing, or improving, some important relationships.
And this also blocks us from unleashing more of our amazing potential.
Time to let go past, and Live NOW!”
“So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.”
“So many people are looking for news on the go. If you really want to understand the world, you're not going to by consuming news in the form of bite-sized haikus. I'm sorry to step up on a soapbox, but I have strong feelings about this.”
“So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.”
Source: Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success
“So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.”
“So many people are out of their minds.”
“So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"”
“So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.”
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
“So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.”
“So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.”
“So many people are tired of a shallow life and mediocre relationships. They want to know if there is more. They're asking: is this all there is to life... and love? No way! I want more... more intimacy... more passion... more desire. I want to feel alive in my own skin. I want to go deeper. What they are really asking for without knowing it is more sensuality. Why? Well, because life without sensuality has no depth. It's dull, boring and depressing.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.”
“So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.”
“So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!”
“So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.”
“So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.”
“So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it.”