Quotes on Being Broken

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.