There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. — Charles Lindbergh
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust. — Alexander Pushkin
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing. — Billy Bob Thornton
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. — Mick Jagger
Short Broken Dreams Quotes
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. — Carly Simon
Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost. — Hayley Williams
Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep. — Enya
All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me. — Jay-Z
Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life. — Fabiola Gianotti
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is never easy for those who dream. — Robert James Waller
I got a dream that's worth more than my reality. — Big Sean
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. — Tupac Shakur
Broken Dreams Image Quotes
We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. — Peter S. Beagle
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
Sad Broken Dreams Quotes
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem. — Gordon Lightfoot
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be. — Pearl S. Buck
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. — Sara Teasdale
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. — Fred Savage
Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy. — Duane Elgin
Shattered Dreams Quotes
God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts. — Larry Crabb
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. — Robert Kennedy
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide. — Larry Crabb
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own. — Eric Ludy
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it. — Paulo Coelho
When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams. — Jeremy Irons
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. — Arundhati Roy
My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me. — Diana Krall
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen. — Brooke Shields
Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well. — Stevie Wonder
Lost Dreams Quotes
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence — Kevin Gates
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. — Karl Popper
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans — Tom Waits
Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth? — Steve Buscemi
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. — Neil Gaiman
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape. — Barbara De Angelis
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her. — Jack Gilbert
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted. — Bruce Springsteen
Broken Promises Quotes
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Eliel Saarinen
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams
Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen. — James MacDonald
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley
Promises That Are Broken Quotes
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — Red Auerbach
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. — Will Rogers
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. — Malcolm Bradbury
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — E. W. Howe
I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay. — Barack Obama
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. — Barack Obama
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. — Barack Obama
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. — Mark Twain
Hopes And Dreams Quotes
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. — Robert Fulghum
Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles. — Joyce Meyer
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders. — Yuri Kochiyama
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. — Judy Garland
By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. — Bo Schembechler
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. — Frank Sinatra
Unfulfilled Dreams Quotes
Consult not your fears but your hopes
and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. — Pope John XXII
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. — Pope John XXIII
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential. — Pope John XXIII
Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXII
The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within. — Peter Murphy
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. — Sigmund Freud
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful. — Sheila Walsh
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. — Benjamin E. Mays
Broken Soul Quotes
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. — Rachel Naomi Remen
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! — Frederick Douglass
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. — Max Ehrmann
A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy. — Shannon Alder
There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. — Max Ehrmann
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. — Willa Cather
Broken Wings Quotes
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page
A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people. — Kerry Katona
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . . — Giorgos Seferis
Take these broken wings and learn to fly. — Paul McCartney
I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days. — Jimmy Page
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction! — Andy Biersack
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. — Thomas Jefferson
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing. — Bob Dylan
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight. — Andrea Gibson
Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. — John Ruskin
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy. — Max Ehrmann
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. — Charlotte Bronte
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. — Greg Reid
In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. — Sayo Masuda
Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place. — Melody Beattie
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going. — Sigourney Weaver
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. — Oscar Wilde
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of. — Road Warrior Hawk
Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence. — Max Ehrmann
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. — Dag Hammarskjold
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life — Parker J. Palmer
Sometimes we focus on the mess or the broken dream, but in all the mess God sees greatness. He knows how to take your troubles and turn them into trophies, how to take the test and make it your testimony. — Joel Osteen
When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. — John Mayer
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity. — Andy Stanley
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us. — Joan D. Chittister
The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive. — Courtney Love
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. — Max Ehrmann
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
Follow your dreams. They know the way. — Kobi Yamada
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. — William Osler
Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored. — Hayley Williams
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters. — Tracy Thompson
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life. — Wanda Coleman
Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams. — Julie Roberts
In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget. — Ricky Nelson
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. — Max Ehrmann
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. — Jon Stewart
I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition. — Emily Saliers
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