The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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.
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
A church without the broken is a broken church.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.
or simply:
