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50 Quotes That Describe The Beauty Of Being Broken

We're all a little broken, but the last time I checked broken crayons still color.
Kirsten Corley
October 31, 2016
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”
— Andrea Gibson, Dive
Tagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Self-Love, Self-Help, Broken Heart, Heartbreak
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart, Failed Attempt, Love, Relationships, Relationships & Dating
“All the broken people
I know
are also the kindest.

I guess when you have been
through terrible suffering
you do not want anyone else
to have to endure it.

Especially when you know
from experience
how good a person
can be at hiding it.”
— Nikita Gill, Kindest
“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”
— Greg Behrendt, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
Tagged: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Pain, Sadness, Breaking Up, Breakups
“You can't break what's already broken. ”
— Six Word Story, Six word story
“She’s had her heart broken, yet she’s not afraid to love; what she is afraid of is wasting any more years of her life loving and supporting a man just to, in the end, have her heart broken and find herself having to start all over again.”
— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man
Tagged: Man, Woman, Relationships
“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”
— passionatelypsycho, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Brokenness, Leaving The Past Behind
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: surviving, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength, broken, Feeling Broken, Hope, My Favorites
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.”
— Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me
Tagged: Home, broken, Healing, Memories
“All the broken hearts in the world still beat.”
— Ingrid Michaelson, Ingrid Michaelson - Girls Chase Boys (An Homage to Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible") - OFFICIAL
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Moving On, Healing
“We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home.
”
— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Tagged: Love, Home, Finding Your Partner , Journey of Love
“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breaking Up, Broken Heart, Numbness
“Gather the scattered fragments of your broken heart. Pick them up off the floor and weave them into the tapestry of your life so that when you find the light again-and you will- you'll remember that love can only be lost because it was once found.

You are healing and you are growing and everything you are is good enough.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Broken Heart, Healing, Growing, Love
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that only keep us in fear.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Protect, broken, hurt, Heartache, Life
“I don't trust easily, and I don't give second chances. I'm messy. I'm emotional. I love hard and get upset about little things. I take everything personally. I want to fix everyone, even if they're not broken.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Trust, Emotional, Messy, broken, Fixing
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: broken, Broken Woman, Love, Blind, Love Too Much
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half upon you to fill you whole. I risked it all just to dream you complete and catch you one day free in the wild.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Broken Pieces, Broken People, Missing Parts, Risks And Values, Complete
“'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things. ”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Break Me, Love, Addicted To Broken Things, R.M Drake
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
— Alyson Noël, Evermore
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Beloved, Broken Heart, cold, Pain, Suffering
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: said to exes, Broken Heart
“I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Gold Collection: All books from L.M. Montgomery and more (including Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and an Extra Special Fan Section)
Tagged: said to exes, Broken Heart, Heartbroken
“The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In search for The Great Perhaps
Tagged: said to exes, World, Beautiful, People
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Self-Love
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Break, broken, Heartbroken
“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, Imperfection
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
— Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken wings, fly
“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Tagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Heartbroken
“A woman's heart shouldn't be judged by the amount of times it has been broken, but more for its strength to know when to walk away.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken