Quotes on Broken

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A promise must never be broken.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

The hard and stiff will be broken. _x000D_ The soft and supple will prevail.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. _x000D_ The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

I can heal a broken heart with a smile.