"It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength."

-- John Welwood

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”
“He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world...”
“there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.89, Sheba Blake Publishing
“An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”
“If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.”
“Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."”
“I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.”
“Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.”

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