"Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard."

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!”
“We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.”
“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”
“I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.”
“After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led them little by little to the habit of living in the air, first by the water's edge and afterwards on all the dry parts of the globe. These animals have in course of time been profoundly altered by such novel conditions; which so greatly influenced their habits and organs that the regular gradation which they should have exhibited in complexity of organisation is often scarcely recognisable.”
“Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.”
“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”
“Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.”

Source : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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