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Quotes About Breakdown

El secreto de avanzar es comenzar. El secreto de comenzar es dividir las tareas complejas y abrumadoras en tareas pequeñas, manejables, y empezar por la primera. MARK T WAIN
~ Jack Canfield
The life he'd known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.
~ Jack Ketchum
In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness. —Thomas Merton
~ Jack Kornfield
Nebun nu este acela care se rupe de real, ci acela pe care realul îl invadeaz? È™i îl debordeaz?.
~ Jacques Lacan
Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which the norms of society had broke down.
~ Unknown
Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn't exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Barriers shut down communication.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Horror stories like this — and the issue of Leningrad cannibalism as a whole — could not be talked about openly during the Soviet period. Such an admission of the breakdown of society was considered demoralizing. Only in 2002 were NKVD files opened so academics could discover the gruesome statistical realities of person-eating.
~ Unknown
Fear began to break down the community of the city. Trust broke down. Signs began to surface of not just edginess but anger, not just finger-pointing or protecting one's own interests but active selfishness in the face of general calamity. The hundreds of thousands sick in the city became a great weight dragging upon it. And the city began to implode in chaos and fear.
~ John M. Barry
There was no trust, no trust, and without trust all human relations were breaking down.
~ John M. Barry
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
~ Jacque Fresco
What we got here is a failure to communicate.
~ Paul Newman
Strong walls can crack, just like the hardest heart can break, Cracks are just reminders that you can fall apart no matter how strong you are.
~ Unknown
You can only be strong enough for so much, but then there comes a point where you just have to break.
~ Unknown
I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.
~ Maggie Nelson
Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced [...} It's only lately that I've realized that Winnicott is not suggesting that breakdowns do not recut. Now I see that he may be suggesting just the opposite: that a fear of breakdown in our past may be precisely what causes it to repeat in our future
~ Maggie Nelson
IN ONE OF his last psychoanalytic papers, D. W. Winnicott wrote: Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.
~ Maggie Nelson
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
~ Major Owens
society had collapsed.
~ Unknown
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
The vaccination problem highlights how religious exemptions can spur claims for nonreligious exemptions, and a breakdown in the purposes of the law in the first place. Parents who unfortunately bought into the autism hype around vaccinations and saw that religious parents were obtaining exemptions demanded the same for themselves.
~ Unknown
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
~ Cherrie Moraga
My car broke down outside Pizza Hut last night. So I ordered a pizza to be delivered to my house and got a lift from the driver.
~ Unknown
The ketones that are produced when you eat fat (especially the fat from coconut oil or MCTs) are better for your brain and can even be used in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's.1 We have long believed that the brain could run only on sugar, but we now know that that is not true and that the brain can burn fat or ketones (produced from fat breakdown).
~ Mark Hyman