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“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

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Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed”

Church Dark Broken Bed Rivers Clean Killing Bones Block Knives Altars Healed Glitter Cripples Imbeciles

Author:Charles Simic

“Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.”

Way Feels Mind Heart Kind May Helping Hands Remember Divine Broken Bones Vessel Potters Healed Merciful Being Me Psalms Broken Bone

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!”

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Author:John Ortberg

“If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.”

Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal

“Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.”

Thinking Feet Broken Overcoming Good Things Series Bones Healed

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.”

People Giving Feels Looks Two Whole Care My Own Broken Hundred Let Me Give Me Insanity Companion Cracks Surround Healed Cracked Dislocation

Book:Sickened

Source: Sickened

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”

World Way Broken Healed Wrong Way Wrists

Author:Frances Hardinge

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

People Heart Broken Cracks Laughed Scar Healed

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”

“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”

Men Heart Kind Spirit Sweet Broken Endure Gentle Healed Forgetfulness Bruised Sweet Death

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings