Self-Restoration Quotes

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation.

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.