Mending Quotes

• Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

  Eugene O'Neill

  God, Faith, Men

  Eugene O'Neill (1926). “The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays”

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• Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

  Herman Melville

  Heaven, Needs, Pagan

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.82

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• Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Unique, Rivers, Broken

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• When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Clothes, Pockets

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

  Mario Quintana

  Inspirational, Time, Butterfly

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• Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Faults, Neglect

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Yarn, Broken

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Explaining

  "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

  James Dyson

  Home, Learning, Science

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• Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Broken, Solitude

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• But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

  Jodi Picoult

  Broken, Different, Finding Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• Ending is better than mending.

  Aldous Huxley

  Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw, James Sexton (2000). “Now More Than Ever”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

  Miroslav Volf

  Understanding, World, Theology

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• ...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

  Ishmael

  Needs, Presbyterians, Cracked

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• Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

  William Shakespeare

  "The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare".

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• Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Wall

  "MendingWall" l. 1 (1914)

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• She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Tears, Needs, Flow

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

  Rick Warren

  Broken Heart, God, Religious

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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• No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your interest. Challenges are growth experiences,temporary scenes to be played out on the background of a pleasant life. Don’t become so absorbed in a single event that you can’t think of anything else or care for yourself or for those who depend upon you. Remember, much like the mending of the body, the healing of some spiritual and emotional challenges takes time.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Healing, Emotional

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• If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.

  Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

  Happiness, Trust, Faith

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• Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending - such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.

  John Joseph Griffin

  School, Science, Boys

  "Chemical Recreations" by John Joseph Griffin, 7th Edition, (p. 189), 1834.

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• The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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