{"quotes":[{"text":"Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.","author":"Marquita Burke-DeJesus","tags":["brokenness","community","humanity","self-absorbtion","suffering"],"id":2785,"author_id":"Marquita+Burke-DeJesus"},{"text":"I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger. It was time to find Kellan.","author":"Rose Wynters","tags":["anger","broken","broken-heart","brokenness","feel-good","fighting-back","fighting-spirit","inspiration","rage","secrets","survival","tough","zombies"],"id":2840,"author_id":"Rose+Wynters"},{"text":"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["at-risk-people","at-risk-youth","brokenness","compassion","counseling","empowerment-and-attitude","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","healing-the-past","helping-others","human-rights-day","humility","intervention","recovery","remembrances","suicidal","suicide","survival","survivor","survivors","survivors-of-war","survivorship","war-veterans","word-definitions"],"id":16733,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.","author":"Paula Hawkins","tags":["brokenness","escape","feelings","hopeless","hurt","life","self-doubt","shame"],"id":18088,"author_id":"Paula+Hawkins"},{"text":"Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["broken-heart","brokenness","catastrophe","change","change-of-events","circumstances","despair","devastation","gasping","guts","hard-to-breath","hardships","pain","unexpected-changes","unexpected-turns","universe"],"id":30951,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["brokenness","dating","dating-relationships","heartbreak","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","lifestyle","love","loving-someone","marriage","relationship","singleness"],"id":33275,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["adversity","brokenness","growth","healing","improvement","potential","problems","purpose"],"id":34154,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"},{"text":"Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.","author":"Lauren Miller","tags":["beauty","brokenness","emotional-health","emotional-pain","healing","souls","truth"],"id":42249,"author_id":"Lauren+Miller"},{"text":"If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...In which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["brokenness","healing","healing-from-the-past","judging-others","life","living","love","love","loving-others","loving-yourself","relationship","relationships","spirituality","true-love"],"id":46698,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["brokenness","church","richard-rohr"],"id":54269,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}