People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.
Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
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