Break Through – Quotes

To write good SF

To write good SF today…you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams. Gardner Dozois

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us. Gabrielle Roth

I must try and

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you think about

If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a ‘rapper’ these days, it’s so much easier. But it’s still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry. G-Eazy

Love is an active

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. Erich Fromm

It’s useful to know

It’s useful to know how much society’s holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn’t get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get … Read more

The ‘success’ of the

The ‘success’ of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and ‘grasps’ us, or we cannot be ‘grasped. Eric Metaxas

There always comes, I

There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. … Read more

We\\’re alone, but we

We’re alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, ‘I’m alone.’ Someone answers, ‘I’m alone too.’ There’s a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses. Elie Wiesel

It\\’s difficult to explain,

It’s difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live–exist or whatever–in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to … Read more