#broken

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#broken

Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it’s both at once. ↗

— Megan Hart

#sadie #broken

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#broken

Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#broken-heart

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic

Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#form #life #meant #meant to be #records

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #broken #hero

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear. ↗

— John Hume

#both sides #broken #clear #had #our

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

#benefit #break #broken #came #career

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#broken #could #ever #far #heart