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“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”

“Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!”

Heart Doe Hurt Broken Affected Vases

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Heart Doe Bigs Desire Born Love Is Broken Longing Saved Desperate Thirst Fear Of Love Anesthesia Painkillers Maybe Love Epidurals

Author:Jonathan Hull

“These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.”

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“The kind of gratitude that receives even tribulations with thanksgiving requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, humility to accept that which we cannot change, willingness to turn everything over to the Lord -even when we do not understand, thankfulness for hidden opportunities yet to be revealed. Then comes a sense of peace. “When was the last time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?”

Wells Heart Kind Doe Lasts Spirit Turns Opportunity Accepting Lord Humility Broken Gratitude Adversity Trials Knees Willingness Last Time Thankfulness Tribulation

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.”

May Doe Whole Bits Behinds Fields Wind Broken Wall Army Snow Range Pursued Open Fields

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.”

Knows Mind Doe Enough Kids Guy Father Speak Enjoy Struggle Growing Up Growing Violence Broken Harder Depth Addiction Bunch Good Enough Broken Family

Author:Marco Rubio

“What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?”

Men World Needs Doe Individual This World Broken Men And Women Transformed Gifted Empowered

Book:A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness

Source: A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness

“If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?”

“Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.”

Doe Together Force Broken Harm Charm Mock

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.”

People Doe Use Easy Broken Lucky Understood Ridicule

Author:Wangari Maathai

“So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.”

Mean Doe Able Understanding Loses Talking Broken Research

Author:Will Smith

“Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.”

Trying Doe Break Violence Inspire Broken Legs Pornography Break A Leg

Author:Mason Cooley

“Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.”

Knows Wells Doe Has Beens Sleep Broken

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.”

Doe Art Eye Girl Effects Fashion Youth Flower Broken Periods Please Clothes Surprise Awful Attributes Meaningless Toes Broadway Sauntering Dazzle Kaleidoscope Panorama

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning.”

Knows Children Long Doe War Matter Use Lying Winning Chance Break Broken Terror Bombs Deceiving Civilians Muhammad Treaties Massacres Ambush

Author:Ali Sina

“The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.”

Doe Art Whole Speak Language Levels Color Broken Shapes Patterns Intellect Justified Art Music Specificity

Author:Thomas Campbell

“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”

Doe Stills Light Beautiful Form Life Is United Sun Our Lives Broken Remains Shining Ties Colour Shattered Sun Shines Prisms

Author:Felix Adler

“If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”

Ifs Knows Trying Doe Play Might Break Know How Broken Being True Make Sense Not Sure

Author:Seth Godin

“Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”

Doe Care Broken Lovers Cost Areas Window Determined Scales Signals Large Scale No One Cares Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.”

World Should Doe Facts Remember Fighting Opinion Failing Planets Broken Evidence Helpful Lament Devastation

Author:John Green

“If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.”

Ifs Doe Broken Vibrate Gongs

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.”

Ifs Doe Watches Broken Technique

Author:Koichi Tohei

“I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.”

Needs Doe I Can Government Jobs Pay Rights Broken Protect Taxes Projects Unions Extraordinary Workers Voters European Union Euro Brussels Bailouts Workers Rights Can't Trust You

Author:Gisela Stuart

“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”

“In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinking; it is only sterile and what can overcome. To reach that depth in terms of female divinity is to accept nurture as godly. It's not just something that your mom does for you when something's broken and you need a bandage; it's about something deeper and it is in contradistinction from the endless displays of power.”

Thinking Needs Kind Doe Term Accepting Broken Mom Female Overcoming Depth Males Deeper Endless Conquer Divinity Life And Death Display Phases Nurture Godly Your Mom Bandages

Author:Andre Alexis

“What does Obama mean keep working on closing Gitmo? It's a broken promise. Obama said we were gonna close Gitmo the first day he was in office and it never happened.”

Firsts Mean Doe Said Happened Broken Promise Office Closing Broken Promises Gitmo

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.”

Knows Doe Country Home Kids Language Talking Teach Teacher Mines Broken Trump Climate Scared Tension Rhetoric Iowa Broken Up

Author:Margaret Hoover

“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”

World Doe Said Given Results Subjects Objects Broken Words Of Wisdom Barriers Physical Science Broken Down

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?”

People Knows Men Firsts Long Doe Soul Lasts Law Break Alive Broken Police Blue Fats Hated Cried Buttons

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.”

Men Doe Earth Dies Turns Evil Left Justice Broken Universal Praise Luck Filled Deeds Despise Wretched Broken Man

Book:Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Source: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

“Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?”

Doe Stills Left Sound Broken Staring Breasts Bent Stethoscope

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.”

Wells Children Doe Able Parent Broken

Author:William P. Young

“Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!”

Wells Kind May Doe Said War Found Missing Broken Weapons Army Bravery Sticks Clubs Meals Grants Zeus Tyson Olympus

Author:Rick Riordan

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song”

Doe Song Broken Singers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings”

Feels Firsts Doe Hours Grief Half Broken Heal Scar

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?” “Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?”

Mind Doe Matter Facts Girl Dangerous Fields Broken Offers Fruit Illegal Matter Of Fact Toppings Curfew Assorted Field Trip

Book:If I Die

Source: If I Die

“A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.”

“Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.”

Way Doe I Can Lying Break Broken Saturday Butchers Clockwork Daybreak

Book:Alias Grace: A Novel

Source: Alias Grace: A Novel

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.”

Source: Between the Bridge and the River

“Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.”

Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction