Broken Spirit Quotes

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Squash, Broken Promises

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• A church without the broken is a broken church.

  Ed Stetzer

  Religious, Church, Broken Man

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• I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Risk, Tests

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• Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Blessing, Should Have

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.136, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

  Yann Martel

  Long, Water, Doe

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Powerful, Proud, Poverty

  Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.226

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• I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Bones, Found

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• Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

  Bill Maher

  Cat, Men, Doe

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• Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.

  Christian Finnegan

  Jobs, Real, Office

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• America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Home, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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