Broken Quotes - Page 5

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

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.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.