Carole Bouquet Quotes

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

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

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

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

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

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

Never ran away for the sake of scars.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.