Quotes for All
All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked … Read more
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get … Read more
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. Dear God. he cried out, look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don’t you send help? God responded,I did send help. I sent you. When … Read more
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi’s poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions – to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope. David St. John
Generally speaking we don’t want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we’re going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul. Dallas … Read more
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson’s first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world. Christine Schutt
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life … Read more
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I’m beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it’s actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative – they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. … Read more