Quotes About Fragile

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, shattered, as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.

teetering on toothpicks. From the depths of the barrel emerged sounds so clotted and guttural that, when you first heard them, you did not recognize them as

Across the valley, a waterfall stumbles down. In a month or two the really hard rains will come down for eighteen hours a day and that waterfall will once again become tough as a glacier and wash away the road. But now it looks as delicate as the path of a white butterfly in a long-exposed photograph.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye

Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

152] Between us and heaven or hell there is only life half-way, the most fragile thing in the world.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun—you see how nature is indifferent to it all.

scrawny neck.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.

Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.

I was always running. My recovery was so fragile that I'd learned to protect it at all costs. When something threatened my stability, I ditched it.

How frail the human heart must be?a mirrored pool of thought.