take one last look behind commit this to memory and mind don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place when you leave keep your heart off your sleeve
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Remember the pain of a bad place but protect your heart moving forward.
- In plain terms
- Remember the bad place but stay guarded.
- What can you take from it?
- Learn from bad places and stay safe.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you want to remember?
Another view
Guarding the heart can hinder connection.
More from Natalie Merchant
where in hell can you go far from the things that you know far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way about 1,000 miles a day?
Permalink to quote #46 motherland cradle me close my eyes lullaby me to sleep keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go, don't you go
Permalink to quote #48 who do you believe? who will you listen to who will it be? it's high time that you decide in your own mind
Permalink to quote #45
Related quotes
Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the wor…
Lee ChildLee Child quote #4 And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City
Zbigniew HerbertZbigniew Herbert quote #1 A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do onl…
John Millington SyngeJohn Millington Synge quote #14