#broken

In Nature, things are broken with a purpose—clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants … so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose... ↗

— Debashis Dey

#broken-heart #nature #beauty

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#poverty

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #broken #either #england #france

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#chicago #like #loving #nose #woman

Our current tax system is broken. ↗

— Dick Armey

#current #our #system #tax #tax system

She remembered the day vividly, for how can you forget the day your heart is broken? The funny thing about a broken heart is that it's not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues on and you have no choice but to continue on with it. You take the hand that fate has dealt you and you press forward because there is nothing else that can be done. ↗

— Tracy Winegar

#funny

Don't tell me peace has broken out. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#me #out #peace #tell

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#broken #get #god #half #morally

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#egg #most #private #probably #things