Tears Quotes - Page 14

• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Numbers

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• People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

  Grant Hill

  Basketball, Stress, People

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• Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'

  John Flavel

  Heart, Thinking, May

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• When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

  Max Lucado

  Funeral, Eulogy, Empty

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Tears fall in my heart
  As tears fall on the town.

  Paul Verlaine

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  "The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems".

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,
  Alike they're needed to the flower;
  And joys and tears alike are sent
  To give the soul its nourishment.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Spiritual, Flower, Giving

  "He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower". "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 282, 1895.

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• I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my tears back to show you that I'm happy but what hurts the most is knowing the fact that I'm not all these things I portray to be.

  Harriet Morgan

  Strong, Hurt, Pain

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• I shine in tears like the sun in April.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Shining, Sun, April

  Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.127, Manchester University Press

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

  George III

  War, Science, Humanity

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• The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Nature, Science, Two

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• [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Grief, Fate, Psychology

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• If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Mean, Opposites

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• Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By repressing it you will destroy something that is growing. The heart is meant to be broken. It's purpose is to melt into tears and evaporate. When the heart has evaporated exactly in the same place where the heart was, you come to know the deeper heart.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

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• How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Men, Flow

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• Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

  Spike Lee

  Criticism, Lucky, Down And

  Spike Lee, Terry McMillan (1991). “Five for five: the films of Spike Lee”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Fate

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• I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

  Patti Smith

  Love, Dream, Heaven

  Song: Farewell Reel, Album: Gone Again

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• People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Party, Blue

  "The Tracks of My Tears" (song) (1967). Cowritten with Warren Moore and Marvin Tarplin.

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• Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Beautiful, Eye

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• Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Spring, Islamic

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• My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

  William Shatner

  Beautiful, Death, Laughter

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• ... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

  Dorothy Hewett

  Wisdom, Laughter, Bed

  Dorothy Hewett (1968). “Windmill country”

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