That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.
The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.
Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.
Sometimes broken people stay broken.
When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
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.
We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.
'Broken' is a story of two broken people coming together. I think every one of us can associate with it, as we all have faced a heartbreak sometime in our life.
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.
The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.
Why do we want to kill all the broken people?
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.
