Brokenness Quotes
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“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
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![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
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![Angie Thomas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1471998209i/15049422._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
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![Bo Sánchez](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398050620i/881233._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.”
― You Have The Power to Create Love: Take Another Step on the Simple Path to Happiness
― You Have The Power to Create Love: Take Another Step on the Simple Path to Happiness
![Vance Havner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341800818i/249386._UX200_CR0,60,200,200_.jpg)
“God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.”
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![Paula Hawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1492111911i/1063732._UY200_CR3,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
![Paula McLain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1521037060i/290189._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.”
― The Paris Wife
― The Paris Wife
![Coco Mellors](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1623451446i/21373404._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
![Huseyn Raza](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419129390i/8473111._UY200_CR25,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that's not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
Take care!
Love,
Francis.
Title: Letter to Abigail
Scene: "Death-bed"
Chapter: The Road To Awe”
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Take care!
Love,
Francis.
Title: Letter to Abigail
Scene: "Death-bed"
Chapter: The Road To Awe”
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![Keanu Reeves](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1702931223i/3460897._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”
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“To be unbroken, what would that be?
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me”
― ZOEgirl: Different Kind of Free: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me”
― ZOEgirl: Different Kind of Free: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains.”
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![Jenny Offill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1566942988i/33794._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.”
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![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole! And we may not be whole in all places and in all ways, but we take whatever wholeness that we do have, and we make good of it. And we try hard to work on the broken parts, and we ask for help when we need it.”
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![Alice Walker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406752585i/7380._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...”
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![B.A. Paris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497031605i/14425604._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine”
― Behind Closed Doors
― Behind Closed Doors
![Bryan Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416790038i/4396806._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.”
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![Gene Edwards](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1314302950i/31941._UX200_CR0,62,200,200_.jpg)
“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood...God wanted a broken vessel.”
― A Tale of three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
― A Tale of three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
![Dave Rudbarg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1528373619i/7350956._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“The journey of reinvention is one of raw emotions
Emerging from dormancy
Surprising as a paper cut
Overwhelming as a hailstorm
One part vulnerability
One part rage
One part surrender
Uncomfortable
Unfamiliar
Unsure
Fearful
Alone
Damaged
Broken
And finding a new Self
Slowly
Different
Healing
Humble
Present
Open
Longing
Free”
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Emerging from dormancy
Surprising as a paper cut
Overwhelming as a hailstorm
One part vulnerability
One part rage
One part surrender
Uncomfortable
Unfamiliar
Unsure
Fearful
Alone
Damaged
Broken
And finding a new Self
Slowly
Different
Healing
Humble
Present
Open
Longing
Free”
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![Hanya Yanagihara](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1421881815i/6571447._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
![Kemi Sogunle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1584157250i/10817084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.”
― Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
― Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
![Bryan Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416790038i/4396806._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“After working for more than twenty-five years, I understood that I don’t do what I do because it’s required or necessary or important. I don’t do it because I have no choice.
I do what I do because I’m broken, too.
My years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression, and injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself. Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn’t just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. You can’t effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it.
We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.”
― Just Mercy
I do what I do because I’m broken, too.
My years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression, and injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself. Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn’t just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. You can’t effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it.
We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.”
― Just Mercy
![Bryan Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416790038i/4396806._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I told myself that evening what I had been telling my clients for years. I am more than broken. In fact, there is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can’t otherwise see; you hear things you can’t otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
![Bryan Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416790038i/4396806._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people? What is wrong with us, that we think a thing like that can be right?”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
![Bryan Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416790038i/4396806._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I'd always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we're fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we're shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis of our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.”
― Just Mercy
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.”
― Just Mercy
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