Breakdowns And Breakthroughs Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.' — Chamique Holdsclaw

Because you can choose who you'll be with, but you can't choose who they'll become. — David Vann

Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. — R.D. Laing

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs. — Chris Bohjalian

As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan, and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless. — Arthur Conan Doyle

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. — Rajneesh

The word "art" is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community ... Art is to decorate people's houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it's supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it ... It's supposed to be as essential as a grocery store ... that's the only way art can function naturally. — Amiri Baraka

Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from, — Joe Hill

When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed. — Demetri Martin

The Market is thus not a magician, but simply the explanation of a mode of production, a mode where labor is the merchandise, a mode where the highest-bidding worker is the one who works the most, meaning the longest, in order to earn the least, and to allow the owner of the means of production to earn even more! (50) — Ronan De Calan

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves. — Ledisi

Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization ... When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do. — Marianne Williamson

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen. — Drew Brees

That which cannot be seen by the eyes, nor heard by the ears, is the Self (chetan, Soul). That which can be heard by the ears, 'Television' is seen, a 'record' is heard, that is not self (chetan, Soul) . The Self (chetan, Soul) can only be seen with the divine vision (divya chakshu). — Dada Bhagwan

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons, — Alan Hollinghurst

I do need my independence. I have to have that. — Carol Vorderman