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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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• Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

  Sam Smith

  Funny, Thank You, Humorous

  "Before He Was A Grammy Winner - A Conversation With Sam Smith". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 9, 2015.

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• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  James Agee

  Time, Preparation, Tunes

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Strong, People

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

  William Hazlitt

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, People

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• The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Past

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Hope

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• We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

  Bradley Whitford

  Graduation, Believe, Chains

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

  Byron Katie

  War, Stress, Break Out

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Glasses, Fools Day

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Ocean, Sea, Stones

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Kindness, Believe

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• If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

  James Augustus St. John

  Love, Life, Family

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• I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Should, Stills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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• It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Europe, Next Day, Enemy

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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