quotes about broken hearts and love

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson



Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961 Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening



The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick



I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~Muhammad Ali



You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash



Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life. ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003



The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes



Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs



The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood



One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"



Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~Oscar Wilde



Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead



You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988



We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld



One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson



There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke



But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Blood everywhere and, where there is most life, horrible tormentors who dig your flesh, saw your bones, and retract your skin with sinister, joyful faces. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9