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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who f...

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Allen GinsbergHowl and Other Poems

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the grou...

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Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always ...

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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work,...

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Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broke...

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God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be...

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The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ag...

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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so d...

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I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You lo...

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David GerroldThirteen Fourteen Fifteen O'Clock

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in...

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A broken thing can't fix itself.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Fake a smile. No one knows you're broken.

God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw th...

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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only ...

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But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discov...

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Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...

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When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the gl...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teachi...

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I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you...

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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are p...

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I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than n...

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... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling ve...

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Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so ...

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The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?...

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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TI...

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Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get do...

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

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it...

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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and ho...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.

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Lana Del ReyLana del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken...

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone w...

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A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, Augu...

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Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the...

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...

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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was ...

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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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Paul McCartneyBlackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being ...

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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back...

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We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

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Steven HeightonEvery Lost Country

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and h...

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because ...

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The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the myst...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.