“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”

“Trust is like a vase...once it's broken, though it can be fixed the vase will never be the same”

“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”

“Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!”

“If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.”

“Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.”