Emily Dickinson Quotes

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

Have patience, heart.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.