Quotes About Breaking Someone's Spirit

#1. Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

#2. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Jewel

#3. Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

David Gemmell

#4. Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

E.J. Koh

#5. I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

Jill McCorkle

#6. Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

Pat Nixon

#7. I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

Lebbeus Woods

#8. I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Suzanne Finnamore

#9. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

David Weinberger

#11. all of us are living stories, and those stories teach other people to live stories.

Donald Miller

#12. When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Richelle Mead

#14. The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there' (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

E.J. Koh

#16. The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#17. Real leadership involves breaking through the limits of your mind so you can step into the highest strengths of your spirit.

Robin S. Sharma

#18. I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Michael Leunig

#19. No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Grover Cleveland

#20. I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

Nadia Giosia

#21. True equality of the sexes comes when a psychological unity of the masculine and feminine forces of one's own mind has been made.

Serena Jade

#22. The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#23. Each day we live is a glass room
Until we break it with the thrusting
Of the spirit and pass through
The splintered walls to the green pastures
Where the birds and buds are breaking
Into fabulous song and hue
By the still waters.
- Each Day We Live is a Glass Room

Mervyn Peake

#24. Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

Jeff Buckley