Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.
Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare PoliticsThe oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
The Fires of HeavenThey are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.
The Goblin MarketBut can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
Broken Republic: Three EssaysAnd talk about that fabulous chest. Mmm he must work out because that chest does wonders".
Broken HaloHe became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
The Book of Lost Things