Fixing Things Quotes
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“Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be.”
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“I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.”
― Damaged: A Violated Trust
― Damaged: A Violated Trust

“Okay, I said. But remember, you can鈥檛 fix
everything in the world for everybody.
鈥淗owever,鈥 said Ricky, 鈥測ou can鈥檛 do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven鈥檛
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times?”
― Dog Songs: Poems
everything in the world for everybody.
鈥淗owever,鈥 said Ricky, 鈥測ou can鈥檛 do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven鈥檛
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times?”
― Dog Songs: Poems

“It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can.”
― Ocean's Echo
― Ocean's Echo

“Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work鈥攁nd what to do when they break.”
― Blueprints
― Blueprints
“Sometimes we push ourselves so much towards fixing things which are not broken, that we fail to realize that the things aren鈥檛 working because we want them to work as we desired, and not how they are designed to work.”
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“Sometimes you need to take peoples' minds of their problems if you want those problems to resolve themselves," said Marcia. "Focusing on things can make them worse."
"Not all problems go away if you ignore them. Most don't."
"No, but not all problems can be fixed. Sometimes you have to wait until the situation changes.”
― The Unkindest Tide
"Not all problems go away if you ignore them. Most don't."
"No, but not all problems can be fixed. Sometimes you have to wait until the situation changes.”
― The Unkindest Tide
“Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to 鈥渕ake whole that which is broken.鈥 In Judaism, it is tikkun olam, 鈥渞epair of the world.鈥 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 鈥渨orld,鈥 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 鈥 the wholeness that exists in all things, everywhere.”
― Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
― Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture

“Taking down the 鈥極ut of Order鈥 sign doesn鈥檛 fix the problem.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Oh, I wonder... I was trying to fix the whole thing at once... But maybe it needs to be done one step at a time? I can do this... I can do this!!”
― The Sprite and the Gardener
― The Sprite and the Gardener
“By arresting me and putting me in courses and mandatory programmed counseling sessions, the authorities had shoved me onto an assembly line, believing it would fix me without ever accurately assessing what was broken. I was a broken person in need of wisdom, love, patience, and hope, not an object in need of fixing.”
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
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