1036 – “Never make fun of people who speak broken English. It means they know another language.”

-H Jackson Brown, Jr

1019 – “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”

-Billie Mobayed

596 – “All that is gold does not glitter…”

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

– J R R Tolkien

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532 – “She made the broken look beautiful and the strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”

–Ariana Dancu

475 – “When suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

–Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

381 – “The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live in peace and justice in a clean environment. When we look around the world and see that that is not the case, we know the will of the majority is not being listened to, that’s the first sign that our system is broken.”

–Woody Harrelson

248 – “In times of loneliness, I howl at the moon and hear the echo of my pain tremble through the fractures of my broken soul.”

–anonymous

200 – “If you love someone tell them, because hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.”

–Claire in Dorothea Sawatzky’s Lily of the Valley