Repair Quotes

“We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bodies. The process of repair demands a re-association with the body, a commitment to dive into the body and feel today what we couldn’t feel yesterday because it was too dangerous.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!”
― Lynn Johnston

“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general: things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realise that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.
"Actually - maybe I am that kind of person after all.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Almost everything is fixable.”
― Steven Magee

“how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember”
― Robin D. G. Kelley

“If you don’t prepare you will repair”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“I like seeing construction, even if it's just renovation, because it symbolizes one thing: Hope. If tomorrow looks worse than today, and the day after looks worse than tomorrow, and despair permeates the air, then decay defeats repair.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Sometimes, it's not always possible to mend what you've damaged; instead, you must strive to adapt and coexist with it.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“We all do damage. We may all leave marks upon the world. Every stumble, every mistake, leaves a scar. But every misstep is an opportunity for growth, it's in the sincere effort of restoration that we showcase our real character. Character is determined by how we repair it.”
― Carson Anekeya

“All kinds of workshop, service, repair and parts manuals are”
― bigmanuals

“If you were repeatedly taking your broken television to a repair shop for the same fault, you would be annoyed. Unfortunately, millions of sick people are having a similar experience with their doctors visits for their ailing health. Lots of visits for the same problems that never get fixed.”
― Steven Magee

“The last time I saw it, its hull was crushed and it laid helpless against the incessant swells that rolled up upon the shallows within which it laid canted and broken. Yet, in the hands of a seasoned sailor who saw potential in the carnage, it was hauled out the swells, lovingly repaired, and the next year it pushed out past the swells that had held it helpless and it sailed again. And although our hulls are crushed beyond hope of repair and we find ourselves helplessly awash in the incessant swells of our sin, with God we too can sail again.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only God can heal a wounded soul. He is able to repair what is deemed irreparable.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Repair my church which is in ruins.”
― Shane Claiborne

“All problems have solutions.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the main downsides of not being poor or broke is that you are quick to replace even what can be fixed by you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Only God can heal a wounded soul. He can repair what is deemed irreparable.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to “make whole that which is broken.” In Judaism, it is tikkun olam, “repair of the world.” It is said that in the eyes of God, an object that has been repaired is more holy than one that is new. There is an interpretation in Judaism of the world as we see it and of how it came to be; it is a retelling of the Genesis story by the sixteenth-century mystic Isaac Luria. In his vision, Luria saw that God filled the entire universe completely and perfectly and that the world could only be created by somehow making a space for life. Luria imagined that God contracted, like a series of containers within containers, and by becoming smaller and smaller, God allowed a new creation to emerge. When the enormous energy and potential of that creation finally exploded outward, sparks of the divine scattered throughout the universe: the universe we see. The teachings that follow from this, in the wisdom tradition of the Kabbalah, tell us that we are to gather the shards and the sparks and bring them back together. This is the meaning of tikkun olam. Olam, or “world,” comes from the same root as hidden, and so the repair we are asked to accomplish requires that we see the sacred hidden within the ordinary — the wholeness that exists in all things, everywhere.”
― John Wackman, Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture

“The Nail Hole Diaries

I didn't realize... how terrified some women are of devaluing their homes by making a nail hole in the wall. Part of me wants to scream, "It's a ding-a-ling nail hole in the wall! Is there anything in life less risky that creating a one-millimeter hole in a wall that can be filled with your finger and some putty in two seconds?" A nail hole is the easiest repair.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“All broken things.
Augmented with hope of Gold.
A new Kentsugi Heart.

(Haiku)”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I am a ‘solutions’ kind of guy.”
― Steven Magee

“There is nothing worse than wondering when your car is going to break down next and how much the repair will cost!”
― Steven Magee

“If God’s Word is true, then its purpose is not to restrict us or prevent us from having fun, but to help us detect defects and fix anything that needs repair, to show us our intended purpose, and to ensure we function at optimal capacity.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“You can literally re-code your being; repair, animate and activate your 12-Strand DNA; heal (emotional and etheric) trauma; and cure cancer and other illnesses; all through the use of sound frequencies, the harmonic science of the ancients. For sound is vibration, the oscillating motion of molecules in the atmosphere. All dimensions exist in states of vibration.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Tom Pritscher, a Meta-Hermeneutical Master, inventively explains that when you have suffered trauma, you suffer tears in the fabric of your existence. The author sees these as holes in your subtle bodies, for example in your Etheric or Astral bodies. Music can create a mesh on which can be woven the warp and weft of etheric filaments in order that the holes in the fabric of your subtle bodies can be repaired. Recall too, that as a multidimensional being, you must repair tears that exist in all the dimensions of your existence.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Instead of appealing to a fear of consequences, community accountability appeals to higher values and aligns self-interest with the collective good. In CI's limited experience, liberatory goals were required to guide the process, since pragmatism could lead to the use of coercion or threatened or real violence as temporary measures for assuring the stability and safety needed to make further steps possible However, the pervasiveness of punishment as a model for accountability and the association of the term "accountability" with retribution contributed to difficulties in moving beyond this mode of engagement. Thus, a practice such as banning, which makes a modicum of safety possible while mobilizing for a more engaged process, can become an end rather than a means. (Mimi Kim)”
― Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement