Wiseheart Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains. — Mark Strand

I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh ... I guess I said something, and, uh ... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she ... " Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it." — Louis C.K.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way. — Mary Roebling

Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race. — Thomas Ligotti

There where they learned that courage is not the ability to face your fear, heroically, once, but is the strength to do it day after day. Night after night. Faith without end. Love without border. — Sunil Yapa

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots. — Sylvia Plath

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh. — Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. — Jacob Riis

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want — Francine Rivers

At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work. — David Ignatius

I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength. — Anna Brownell Jameson