“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.” IfsThinkingWayHumansTwoSufferingGrowsHuman BeingsBrokenMajorsShedWornUnwilling Author:Mark Nepo
“When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.” MenGrowsSidesWaterRichBrokenWeakFilledInheritanceTanksLeaksWeak Man Author:Sakya Pandita
“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.” WellsChildrenSometimesGrowsRealizingGrowing UpSecurityBrokenFragileThread Book:Simply Magic Source: Simply Magic
“Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you can't really love a brother or sister until you know that they're as scarred and broken as you are. And, hey, if you grow up with a father like mine and you aren't at least a little scarred and broken, well then, that's not your father. You were spawned by an entirely different guy.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenLittlesDifferentPainGuyFatherGrowsCausesHellGrowing UpBloodMinesBrotherBrokenHeyOnly ChildDifferent Guys Author:Christopher Titus
“The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain.” HumansMaySometimesFactsHandsLife IsStrongGrowsGrowing UpAirRocksBrokenRainRelationStrongerHeavyExtremesDuesHuman LifeSunshineWeedTendernessStrainExposureCrushedSympatheticFresh AirStiffness Author:Kyuzo Mifune
“If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.” IfsGivingHeartChildrenGrowsBreakGrowing UpBrokenOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.” FeelsYearsMadeSeemsGrowsBornWhiteKnownBrokenTwentiesExtraordinaryBottomEdgesSpreadWarmOilInstantSeatsChairsPurpleStainsPuddlesNauseaSuspenders Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.” SoulGrowsTreeChildhoodBrokenReturnPromiseFilledGenuineThreadRuinedBudSpringtimeNew HopeThreads Of Life Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel
“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.” IfsLongBookHandsEarthLife IsChoicesGrowsWaitingPathBrokenPagesLuckMoodOpeningCuriousHorizonCowsShelvesGreedySweetestExaltedPasturesWeighingBrowsingBallast Author:Linda Pastan
“We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.” NeedsFeelsHeartMadeHelpingGrowsLaughingBrokenSkinsBonesChocolateMotivatedExposedOur ThoughtsDiscouragedSkin And Bones Author:Joan Bauer
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.” PeopleIfsWayLifeYoungCertainTurnsGrowsFeltChallengesWonderBreakFailingHappenedSadnessBrokenDepressionSurpriseI RealizedLovelyFixedLife LessonPeople In Your Life Book:Life After God Source: Life After God
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?” WorldHardJoyGrowsGraceBrokenRainSkinsLaysBest ThingsDrySoilBeing The BestPenetrateCrackedHard LifeCrevice Author:Ann Voskamp