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“In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.”

People Thinking Ideas States Earth Term Broken Offers Forgotten Meaningful Contact Motive Consumerism Helpless Dependence Overconsumption

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.”

Care Remember Changed Hair Broken Cost Don't Care I Don't Care My Boyfriend Broken Up

Author:Gwen Stefani

“It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.”

Feels Writing Heart Character Materials Broken Easier Draws Assumption Reasonable Heart Broke

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.”

Heart Broken

Author:Gary Zukav

“One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.”

Way Feels Heart Enough Challenges Sun Broken Shining Glasses Snow Posts Relax Slow Down Lamps Reflecting Crow Alleys Shine On Broken Glass

Author:Mark Nepo

“Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.”

Home Broken Rays Widows Broken Up Ray Of Hope

Book:Young India, 1927-1928

Source: Young India, 1927-1928

“My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.”

May Made Religion Teach Taken Objects Broken Promise Worthy Vow

Book:The Good Life

Source: The Good Life

“Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Wells Heart Said Moving Broken Musician Rings Slips Good Writers True You Heart Broke

Author:David Lee Roth

“I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.”

Ifs Knows School Roles Teacher Fashion Design Broken Needed Program Evolve Associates Fixing Dean Administrators Fixing Things

Author:Tim Gunn

“Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.”

Years Two Problem Body Fall Games Records Player Broken Arms Your Body Shoulders Two Years Falling Apart Blueprints Steroid

Author:Charlie Sheen

“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”

“It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.”

Heart Important Hard Church Broken Tough Seasons Stuck Phrases Tough Times Bucks

Author:Max Lucado

“It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.”

Mean Hard Broken Tired Acceptable Stressed

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”

Children Strong Views Dog Wind Broken Exercise Summer Anger Sticks Warm Kicks Monument Burglars Summer Wind

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."”

Knows Love Heart Passion Broken Calm Lips Thunder Forgetfulness Tempest Heart Love Sullen

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.”

Needs Country Broken Depends Workers Immigration Fixed Immigrants Immigrant Workers

Author:Pramila Jayapal

“Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.”

“If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.”

Ifs Believe Waiting Broken Conversation Don't Believe Lifts Friendly Chit Chat

Author:Marco Pierre White

“At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.”

Firsts Humor Kids Funny Broken Seats Chairs Airplane Kicking Massage

Author:Kristen Schaal

“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.”

Way Play Home Running Sports Football Broken Basketball Baseball Tiny Staying Broken Homes

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.”

People Thinking Knows Want Seems Sports Behinds Know How Risk Broken Bones Excitement Desks Taking Risks

Author:Travis Pastrana

“One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.”

People Thinking Would Be Break Car Broken Pet Rude Breaking Down Automobile Superpower Freeways Broken Down Jackasses Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Chris Carmack

“Records and achievements are made to be broken.”

Made Records Broken Achievement

Author:Yogi Berra

“There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Years Two Ideas Different Helping Stuff Novel Dying Broken Walking Killing Two Years Why Not Going To Work Accelerate Walking Away

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.”

World Different Form Views Economy Pieces Our Lives Broken Picks Meaningful Sustainability Meaningful Life Broken World

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.”

Social Broken Creating Something New Social Change Creating Something Mosaics

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.”

Facts Able Past Turns Broken

Author:Minka Kelly

“I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.”

People Men Feels Looks Hands Eye Faces Simple Poverty Tears Broken Institutions Legs Accidents Pockets Bless Tickets Affluence Crutches Boon Vests Broken Leg

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.”

Want Writing I Can Two Different Age Film Modern Stage Broken Different Things Serving This Day Concerts Parameters Modern Age Film Writing

Author:Aaron Zigman

“I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal.”

Real Body Deals Forever Fans Broken Commitment Bones Dedication Jackie

Author:Jason Statham

“You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.”

“When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.”

Heart Christian Leadership Church Attention Broken Paid Nehemiah

Author:Andy Stanley

“God uses broken-hearted leaders.”

Use Christian Leadership Church Leader Broken Hearted Broken Hearted

Author:Andy Stanley

“When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.”

Heart Happens Christian Leadership Church Broken Skills Harness Leadership Skills

Author:Andy Stanley

“Leaders fix things that are broken.”

Christian Leadership Church Leader Broken

Author:Andy Stanley

“You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.”

Heart Christian Leadership Church Attention Generations Broken Paid Where You Are

Author:Andy Stanley

“I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.”

Death Certain Fall Prayer Forget Broken Forgotten Deeds Funeral Remembrance Memorial Eulogy Slumber Grieving A Death Death And Grieving Death Remembrance

Book:Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

Source: Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

“Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.”

Way Hard Lying Fall Sin Broken Promise Truth Is Unhappy Temptation Pleasant Deceit Satisfying I Promise Sanctification

Author:John Piper

“While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.”

Ifs Should Children America Fighting Poverty Broken Promise Our Children Raises Your Children

Author:John Edward

“How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.”

Jobs Christianity Broken Overcoming Ease Paradise Adam Pillow Conqueror

Book:Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson

Source: Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson

“The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'”

Children Home Cutting Broken Dad Horse Faults Fingers Incredibles Ran Weeping Jezebel

Author:Pam Brown

“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.”

Source: Speeches in Congress

“If your heart is open it can never stay broken.”

Ifs Heart Broken

Book:Open Hearts: If Your Heart Is Open, Love Will Always Find Its Way In

Source: Open Hearts: If Your Heart Is Open, Love Will Always Find Its Way In

“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing”

Lying Cities Pieces Wind Broken Kings Ancient Vanity Desert Howl Vulture Broken Pieces

Author:Sting

“When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.”

Heart Moments Dream Broken Bed Wake Up Breathe Hardest Knees Waking Lost Love Hearted Broken Hearted Mature Love

Author:John Mayer

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.”

People Light Darkness Pieces Land Broken Shadow Mental Health Burden Shoulders Yoke Weighing

Author:Isaiah

“They will never count me among the broken men.”

Men Broken Broken Man

Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.”

Giving Heart Christ Broken Wounds Heal Miserable

Book:A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Source: A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

“Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.”

Broken Walking Golf Disappointment Golfers Golfing Arithmetic Golf Life Great Golf Funny Golf Broken Up Great Golfing Funny Golfing Greatest Golf

Author:Earl Wilson

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