Fractured Minds Quotes & Sayings

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. — Yuanwu Keqin

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism! — Anton Chekhov

I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I ... — Darynda Jones

The Luggage was also extremely protective of its owner. It would be hard to describe its attitude to the rest of creation, but one could start with the phrase "bloody-minded malevolence" and work up from there. Conina — Terry Pratchett

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions" — Walter Russell

It made their minds brittle and caught them in a dream that fractured them. We didn't see. I didn't see. The corruption spread unnoticed, and then it shattered. They killed each other over nothing. Over the colors of their shirts or their eyes, whether they drank before they ate or ate before they drank. Whether they ate beef or fowl. Anything became a pretext for murder. — Anonymous

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love. — Nhat Hanh

It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. — Haruki Murakami

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. — Maria Shriver

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. — Amy Tan

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. — C.S. Lewis

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits. — Dean Koontz