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There is a crack in everything,
by Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

Related topics: Wisdom

Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen

Crack Quotes and Sayings

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Everything Quotes and Sayings

Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone

Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal

Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous

Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon

Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller

By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Love your spouse as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

What do you take for granted?
It is human nature to take everything for granted -
our companions, our homes,
our electricity, our TVs and computers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

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