6 Depression Quotes That Heal Brokenness

Shifting from Brokenness to Wholeness

Let’s face it. Brokenness hurts. When you’re broken, shifting to a place of wholeness is not an easy task. When we allow brokenness to take form in our lives, it can take on many forms including depression, anxiety, bitterness and emptiness. We get so caught up in our sadness that we feel we can’t live up to our expectations and that we are always falling short. When we’re broken, sometimes we try to fill our lives with substitutes to avoid or numb the pain when the reality is, we’re only making it worse by not dealing with the pain. When we’re at our lowest, sometimes we just need a pick-me-up to remind us that there is positive in and outside of our pain.

If you’re feeling broken and not sure where to turn, let these six depression quotes heal your brokenness.

Transformation

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly" -English Proverb

The final moment before a caterpillar emerges as a butterfly is recognized as a metamorphosis, or a transformation but becoming a butterfly is a long and painful process. It isn’t until the caterpillar becomes a butterfly that it can recognize why the change took place. This Proverb is a great reminder of the need to be patient in our journey towards transformation. Just as the butterfly, we can recognize why we're going through these low moments: for our own transformation. Even when we’re broken and the world seems to be closing in, we have to trust, change and believe that all things are possible.

Courage, Not Weakness

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“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.” –Katherine Henson

Many of us are told that in order to be strong we have to get over what we're going through and suck it up. Strength then becomes a process of not showing emotion and weakness becomes a process of showing it. We hide from what’s going on to protect our soft hearts, to protect ourselves when not confronting the pain only makes matters worse. In this quote, we are reminded that having a soft heart in the cruel world that we live is not weakness, but courage. There is strength in our vulnerability and our weakness. We can find power when we don’t let the world take away from that.

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