Leonard Cohen on growth
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.”
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is the only engine of survival.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Growth is not a competition.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat Hang in there darling. The rain is necessary for the flower to fully grow.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it’s really about the shows and seeing them grow.
Dua LipaDua Lipa Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
John DeweyJohn Dewey It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett