Fixing Things Quotes

“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.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!”
― RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia

“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.”
― Melody Carlson, Damaged: A Violated Trust

“Okay, I said. But remember, you can’t fix
everything in the world for everybody.

“However,” said Ricky, “you can’t do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven’t
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times?”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“We all make mistakes, but what matters is how we go back and fix them.”
― Rwynn Christian

“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.”
― Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo

“Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

“Sometimes we push ourselves so much towards fixing things which are not broken, that we fail to realize that the things aren’t working because we want them to work as we desired, and not how they are designed to work.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“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.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Unkindest Tide

“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

“Taking down the ‘Out of Order’ sign doesn’t fix the problem.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, 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!!”
― Joe Whitt, 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.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“She hadn't been born, as some of her compatriots had been, with the Gallic zeal for burning down the institutions of oppression. But it was becoming too stark to ignore. There was no better world just waiting for them: they were going to have to go out and make it for themselves.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things