Ramakrishna Quotes

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

Have patience, heart.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.