#broke

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#broken #build #children #easier #repair

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. ↗

— Mark Lawrence

#clothes #die #empire #king #little

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#broken #destroyed #entwine #federico-garcia-lorca #love

People—especially men—don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit.” With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, “Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#broken-heart #carpe-diem #men

...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. ↗

— Gene Edwards

#christianity #men

Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both. ↗

— C.J. Hill

#laws #promises #smart-people #men

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ↗

— Rumi

#healing #scars #suffering #broken

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#broken

Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it’s both at once. ↗

— Megan Hart

#sadie #broken

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#broken