S Quotes
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“Some of us get hit in the fight. But we cannot give up the fight. A bullfighter gets hit in the beginning of the bullfight. But he does not give up the fight.
The bullfighter gets better in the next fight.
We will fight hard in the next fight!”
“Some of us get hit in the fight. But we cannot give up the fight. A bullfighter gets hit in the beginning of the bullfights. But he does not give up the fight.
The bullfighter gets better in the next fight.
We will fight hard in the next fight!”
“Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.”
“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”
Source: Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood
“Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.”
“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are small. That shrunken self is not you. That shrunken self is a persona you created to survive.”
Source: African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
“Some of us have deeper feelings for one over another. It can’t be helped. It’s chemistry. It’s inherent. You can’t make yourself love someone you don’t and you can’t make yourself stop loving someone you do.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.”
“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.”
“Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.”
Source: Twenties Girl
“some of us have just never known ease.
we've known so much fear energy,
and we've spent our lives with this feeling…
like we're always on the verge of being in trouble
for something. it's intangible, but it's always there…
and the dream is to close our eyes someday
and to just feel safe, to feel held by
a universe that loves us.”
“Some of us have met our guardian Angels and treated them like beggars because they showed up with beggars bowl.”
“Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.”
“some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.”
“Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.”
“Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.”
“Some of us have to make mistakes. Some of us have to get our hands a little bloody sometimes. Some of us are human.”
“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born.”
“some of us just aren't made
for how hard the edges are here,
for how slow pain moves,
or how lost light can get,
and how heavy it all can weigh…
we're surely not made for how flawed humans love.
but while we’re here…
we can try to love a little deeper,
and burn a little brighter, and maybe, just maybe,
we make it a little softer here for someone.
– angels and earth”
“Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.”
Source: Tracks
“Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.”
“Some of us keep missing the breakthrough because we don't want to cross the bridges of growth that look like weakness, solitude, loneliness, and delay.”
“Some of us keep searching outwards but at some point instinctively you realize that when you’ve accumulated everything there’s nothing else left outside of you. It happens as an internal realization, that after you conquer everything that you were set out to conquer you need something deeper, you need something more and love is that more.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Some of us know that looks aren't everything, Con Man." Because that's what he was--- a perfect con, tricking others into believing he should be adored. "Beauty fades, and the ugliness inside you will eventually show."
He straightened then, looming over me with a sneer. "I suppose you're one those people who sees past beauty and only loves someone for their personality?"
I felt the setup. I just didn't know where it was going or how to avoid it. I thrust my chin high and played it cool. "I am."
He nodded as if confirming something only he knew before leaning in close. When most boys back then smelled of an overabundance of supermarket body spray, Macon smelled of cedar soap and do-me pheromones. "Tell me, Tater Tot, is it a beautiful soul you're looking at when you moon over the half-naked-firefighters calendar you have pinned in your room?"
All the blood rushed from my face, leaving painful prickles in its wake.
Macon's smile was cutting. "I don't believe for a second that you like Hayes for his riveting personality. You act all high and mighty while you're as susceptible to good looks as the rest of us. At least I have the guts to admit it.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”
Source: Eyes of democracy
“Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...”
“Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.”
“Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.”
“Some of us live a thousand lives within a single lifetime, while others endure the pain of dying a thousand times in the span of just one.”
“Some of us live in the future,
Connected to hurts from our past,
If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,
Then today has been painted black
Some of us live in the present
Connected to gifts from our past,
If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,
the today's masterpiece has been cast.”
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.”
Source: The Aeneid
“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.”
“Some of us manage to think bigger, brighter, deeper thoughts. Some of these thoughts already shape the kind of research we do. Some of them will prove to be right, and our understanding of our home will deepen. Our home, one day, will be less of a mystery to us.”
“Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”
“Some of us meet our death while we are being introduced to life by our birth.”
“Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.”
“Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.”
“Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.”
“Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform.”
“Some of us never had good schools, teachers, education, parents, childhood, background and a good wealthy family. Even the place we come from is not on google map, but that should not stop you from being the great person you were destined to be . In life Its either you spend your days feeling sorry for yourself for the rest of your life or you spend days fighting for better life for the rest of your life.”
“Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.”
“Some of us ran so far away, during a period of survival, that we forgot to come back home to ourselves. Return home to yourself. You are safe now.”
Source: Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power
“Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.”
Source: The woman in white
“Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.”