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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.

    Heart   Broken   Solitude  
  • 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.

    Unique   Rivers   Broken  
  • How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

  • I'm not saying people should go out and start killing," the California-based Vlasak says. But he's not saying activists shouldn't kill either, even though he's a doctor, devoted to mending people. "There's a lot of violence used against animals" Vlasak rationalizes. And some of those responsible won't stop, he says, "until they are forced to stop.

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

    Mending  
    "The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare".
  • She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

    Tears   Needs   Flow  
  • 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.

    School   Science   Boys  
    "Chemical Recreations" by John Joseph Griffin, 7th Edition, (p. 189), 1834.
  • For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

  • There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

    Men   House   Physicians  
  • How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

    Spiritual   Men   Tears  
  • Ending is better than mending.

    Mending  
    Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw, James Sexton (2000). “Now More Than Ever”, p.30, University of Texas Press
  • Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

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

    "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
  • There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

    Heart   Broken   Way  
    Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK
  • But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

    Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
  • Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

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

  • Good fences make good neighbors.

    "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)
  • The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the statutory machinery. That philosophy ignores the American people's decision to give Congress '[a]ll legislative Powers' enumerated in the Constitution. They made Congress, not this Court, responsible for both making laws and mending them.

    Philosophy   Order   Law  
  • God never made his work for man to mend.

    Fitness   Work   Exercise  
    Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92
  • Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.

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

    Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013
  • Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

    Heaven   Needs   Pagan  
    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.82
  • From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

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

    Work   Faults   Neglect  
    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation
  • I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

    Believe   Yarn   Broken  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”
  • I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.

    Real   Believe   Israel  
    Source: www.wbur.org
  • I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

    Loss   Outcomes   Awful  
    Joseph O’Neill (2012). “Netherland”, p.27, HarperCollins UK
  • 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.

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

    "MendingWall" l. 1 (1914)
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