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  • Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

    Unique   Rivers   Broken  
  • Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.

    Stars   Ocean   Thinking  
  • I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

    Dream   Strong   Real  
  • I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

  • The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone, and You made it home And set this prisoner free

    Home   Heart   Play  
    Song: Hallelujah, Album: Imagination, 2005
  • This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

    Heart   People   Broken  
    John Connolly (2008). “The Unquiet: A Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

    Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.284, A&C Black
  • And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

    Heart   Broken   Spots  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.213, Bantam
  • There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  • See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

  • Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

  • Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.

    "Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself". Book by Peter Lindbergh et al., 2002.
  • Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

    "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.
  • When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

  • The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

    Love   Boyfriend   Wisdom  
  • Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

    Men   Broken   Use  
  • I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

    Broken   Stories   Shells  
  • Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  • Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

    Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.15, Fulcrum Publishing
  • I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

    Love You   Long   People  
    Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.370, Simon and Schuster
  • My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

    Glasses   Broken   Evil  
  • Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  • It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

    God   Religious   Work  
    Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

    Mother   Broken   Lines  
    Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”
  • Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

    Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.114, Penguin
  • God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

    God   Faith   Christian  
    FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jul 17, 2013
  • I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

    Love   Failure   Learning  
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