46 Kintsugi Quotes To Help You Heal A Broken Heart

“You are more beautiful because you have been broken.”

“In Japan broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object’s history, which adds to its beauty. Consider this when you feel broken.”

“All beautiful things carry distinctions of imperfection. Your wounds and imperfections are your beauty. Like the broken pottery mended with gold, we are all Kintsugi. Its philosophy and art state that breakage and mending are honest parts of a past which should not be hidden. Your wounds and healing are a part of ...

... your history; a part of who you are. Every beautiful thing is damaged. You are that beauty; we all are.” – Bryant McGill

“Kintsugi, the art of beautiful imperfection.”

“The bonded seams become an intrinsic part of the ceramic and add a personalized, one-of-a-kind beauty through its imperfections.” – Jo Ann V. Glim

“If you’re broken, hold until each piece of you heals one again. Life is but a Kintsukuroi.” – Samara Rhea Samuel

“Did you know that pottery can be repaired with gold?” Kami asked. “Then it’s meant to be stronger than before, and more beautiful.” – Sarah Rees Brennan

“Kintsugi is based on the belief that something broken is stronger and more beautiful because of its imperfections, the history attached to it, and its altered state.” – Jo Ann V. Glim

“Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It’s the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.” – Kathleen Tessaro

“In repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks – a bond stronger than mere possession.” – Nicholson Baker

“Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing cracked pottery with gold, and knowing that the brokeness can make an object even more beautiful.”

“Kintsugi: The ancient Japanese art of mending broken objects with gold teaches us that if we choose to embrace our struggles and repair ourselves with love. We become more beautiful for having been broken.”

“Japanese potters developed the kintsugi repair technique where they use a compound that includes molten gold to rejoin the broken clay pieces. The repaired pieces are made useful once again, and often become lovelier than they were in their original form. Kintsugi is a wonderful picture of the way God restores ...

... broken hearts. He doesn’t erase the evidence or memory of heartbreak. Instead, he makes it beautiful and repurposes us for new uses.”

“It’s not what people are showing that’s worrying, it’s what they are concealing and the extent of the concealment.” – Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Kintsugi: “Embrace your imperfections and find happiness – the Japanese way.”” – Tomas Navarro

“Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful…To celebrate the history of the object….What it’s been through. And I was just… Thinking of us like that.” – Leah Raeder

“And now every time that it shatters I build it back together better, stronger, with more unique random scars to redefine, to beautify, to create more success stories that I can claim to be mine, alone.” – Rubina

“The struggles will become your story, And that’s the beauty of Kintsugi. Your cracks can become the most beautiful part of you.” – Candice Kumai

“World is imperfect. Life is imperfect. You are imperfect. I’m imperfect. All are Kintsugi.”

“The Japanese art of kintsugi, or “golden joinery,” a method of repairing cracked pottery with a vein of lacquer mixed with gold or silver. A plausible origin story dates this art to the fifteenth century, when Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa broke his favorite tea bowl and sent it back to China to be ...

... repaired. It was returned with ugly metal staples, prompting the shogun to order his craftsmen to find a more aesthetic means of repair. I love the idea that an accident can be an occasion to make something more delightful, not less so.” – Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to ...

... Create Extraordinary Happiness

“A break is something to remember, something of value, a way to make the piece more beautiful, rather than something to disguise. They use gold, not invisible superglue because mistakes shouldn’t be considered ugly.” – Penny Reid

“Kintsugi is based on the belief that something broken is stronger and more beautiful because of its imperfections, the history attached to it, and its altered state. Instead of hiding what’s been damaged, the shards are mended with a special resin mixed with gold dust. The bonded seams become an intrinsic part of ...

... the ceramic and add a personalized, one-of-a-kind beauty through its imperfections.” – Jo Ann V. Glim, Begotten With Love: Every Family Has Its Story

“I am looking forward to getting shattered only to add further elegance to myself.” – Aura Trevortini

“In the language of delicate perception Kintsugi is the art of mending what is broken. The Emperor’s plate is smashed. Death and despair! Yet here is powdered gold and platinum, with resin bled from Chinese lacquer trees to run in cracks and make it whole again. For my poor love I cannot find repair without a balm ...

... more powerful than these.” – Roy Ernest Ballard

“Wabi sabi: “flawed beauty”; beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”; looking for beauty within the imperfections of life, being at peace with the universal cycle of growth and decay.”

“Broken pieces and their repair merely contribute to the story of an object, they don’t ruin it.” – Penny Reid

“Just like the art of Kintsugi, he knew the art of fixing up broken people with the lacquer of his golden words.”

“My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks.” – Leah Raeder

“Golden Healing: Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with gold. Because the ‘flaw’ reveals its history, the resulting piece is considered more beautiful. Your healing is your story. Mend yourself with love.”

“Crack allow the light to get in.”

“The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.” – Brant Menswar

“Kintsugi, the Japanese art of embracing the imperfect and loving your flaws.”

“Kintsugi: Built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art.”

“I sit and pick up those pieces with their renewed essence and identities, with their flawed edges and imperfections, and join them together like Kintsugi, displaying the damages with pride.” – Rubina

“The Japanese art form of kintsugi repairs broken and flawed pottery with gold, silver or platinum. It doesn’t hide the cracks, but embraces it, seeing it as integral to the object’s history, and rebuilds something new.” – Sidhanta Patnaik, The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India

“One of the key principles in Kintsugi is “Kansha” or expressing gratitude. As part of my pledge is to continuously design interventions and activities that will make the whole organization intentional in giving gratitude for their work, their colleagues and their leaders. By building this culture and mindset, I ...

... can contribute in helping the organization develop self leaders who are more positive, resilient, adaptable to change and continuous growth.” – Denise Escanillas Ramos

“Kintsugi is a form of art embodying “Wabi Sabi” which is a word to appreciate Japanese aesthetic sensibilities. (Wabi Sabi which represents “beauty within simplicity and imperfection”) “Nothing lasts forever, nothing is complete, nothing is perfect. Your scar is important part of your life and is a part ...

... of you. It is a living history, never look scars as negative, instead take it as positive.” – Shawzi Tsukanoto

“Kintsugi: stronger and more beautiful in the broken places.”

“God uses our brokenness to make us even more beautiful. It’s the place of brokenness where God comes in to restore and renew.” – James Prescott

“Why be broken when you can be gold?” – Sarah Rees Brennan

“To become beautiful it had to break.” – Aura Trevortini

“It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.” – David Wong

“The point of Kintsugi is to treat broken pieces and their repair as part of the history of an object.” – Penny Reid

“Paint your cracks with gold, let them add to your beauty.”

“The scars are the design. Your attention is drawn to the cracks and how they are mended. That is what you’re supposed to see. The beauty is in the brokenness.” – Justin Whitmel Earley

“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken objects using gold of silver epoxy. The Japanese believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”