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Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
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A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
sari added 2y ago