We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. — Michael Jackson
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. — Hayao Miyazaki
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world — Hilary Benn
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. — Sean O'Casey
It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world! — Kane
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is a drought when out of love. — Brandon Boyd
Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas — Terence McKenna
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
This world is not a place where people can be together forever. — Junaid Jamshed
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters — Antonio Gramsci
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Sayings
The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
Short Broken World Quotes
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde
My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
God created a world full of little worlds. — Yiddish Proverbs
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe
The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up. — Leymah Gbowee
A world without love is a deadly place. — Helen Fisher
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. — Frederick Buechner
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. — Terry Tempest Williams
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
We Live In A Broken World Quotes
We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. — Lysa TerKeurst
We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace. — Ann Voskamp
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace. — Tullian Tchividjian
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved. — Henri Nouwen
We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world. — Kay Warren
How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same. — Terry Tempest Williams
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole. — David James Duncan
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. — Elisabeth Elliot
For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life. — Pope Benedict XVI
What Is Broken Broken Quotes
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman
We used to think that aging was a lot like, as if we were cars made fresh and youthful and then we've entered this breakdown in diet. What we didn't realize until recently is that we're much more complex than a car. We fix ourselves if we're broken. — David Sinclair
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. — Samuel Chadwick
In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. — Sayo Masuda
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. — Margaret Mitchell
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. — Margaret Mitchell
Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. — Nev Schulman
Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place. — Melody Beattie
The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness. — Gifford Pinchot
Broken Love Quotes
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley
Broken Things Quotes
it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. — Mary Oliver
Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it. — Adrian Rogers
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech. — John Colton
There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God. — Natalie Grant
Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day. — Dana White
Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. — Cassandra Clare
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with. — Bob Goff
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde
We weren’t afraid to make changes. We weren’t afraid to fail. We tried to do things very cheaply, very quickly. And if it wasn’t working, we would kill it quickly. It meant making quick decisions, fixing things that were broken and scaling things that worked. — Jared Kushner
Broken Images Quotes
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. — William Butler Yeats
God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful. — Katie Davis
Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious. — Matt Chandler
For you know only a heap of broken images — T. S. Eliot
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe — John Lennon
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. — Ben Jonson
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. — Naomi Wolf
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. — Richard Paul Evans
We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits. — Sandra Cisneros
Broken Family Quotes
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? — Mother Teresa
We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily. — Seohyun
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. — Star Parker
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. — Dave Mustaine
I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family. — Tupac Shakur
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death. — Rick Warren
Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy. — Christopher Titus
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. — Patrick J. Kennedy
Broken Heart Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen
I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before. — Hafez
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through. — Andrea Gibson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Broken Homes Quotes
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. — John F. Kennedy
Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home — Gil Scott-Heron
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises. — Chief Joseph
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. — Poppy Delevingne
Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'. — Harry Crews
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day. — Armstrong Williams
Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart. — Bella Pollen
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. — Billie Joe Armstrong
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration. — Billy Graham
I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them. — Angelina Jolie
Broken Open Quotes
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. — Jessamyn West
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. — Andrew Harvey
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji
What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better. — Haruki Murakami
Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope. — Michael Spencer
Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life. — Mark Nepo
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life. — Kathryn Scott
Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world — Stone Cold Steve Austin
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight. — Andrea Gibson
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion. — N. T. Wright
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not." — Sherman Alexie
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy. — Max Ehrmann
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. — Fulton J. Sheen
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. — Rich Mullins
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there. — David Abram
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft
America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. — Mike Ferguson
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. — Max Ehrmann
I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design. — Harry Crews
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. — Erwin Schrodinger
A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy. — Shannon Alder
Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience. — Esther Hicks
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others. — Warren W. Wiersbe
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world. — James Mattis
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. — Heather Brewer
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. — Alice Walker
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning. — Arundhati Roy
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. — John Green
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. — Faraaz Kazi
All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken. — Anais Nin
What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed? — Gene Edwards
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. — J. R. R. Tolkien
It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is only these two blessed things that can begin to heal all the broken hearts. — Steve Maraboli
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse. — Heinz Guderian
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken. — Marcel Proust
Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do. — Colson Whitehead
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human heart is the only thing in this world that weighs more when it is broken — Michael Xavier
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people. — John Connolly
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. — John Bates Clark
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