Restoration Quotes

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."

(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)”
― Audrey Hepburn

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.

The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down
4. Lighten up
5. Forgive yourself
6. Forgive others”
― Germany Kent

“Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.”
― Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!

“True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.”
― Rob Bell

“The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.”
― Dan Allender

“The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things — and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.”
― A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

“This in essence is my goal. To set an example by doing what is good. If I live openly and honestly, I set an example of virtue, humanness, restoration, and healing. I give others permission to join me on my journey despite the fear of failure or the rejection it might elicit when they know they are not alone in their experience. The more of us who amass the courage to embark openly on this path, the more normal this experience becomes, effectively eliminating the tactic of shame and isolation that the enemy so often uses to cause us to falter.”
― Riisa Renee, Breaking the Silence

“In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat

“It is easy to mistake the fallowness of winter for wasted time and space. But this view obscures the necessity of winter for sustaining the whole cycle, dismissing how crucial dormant times are for the growth and beauty that comes later. It ignores the critical work being done under the surface. It pretends that we can all go nonstop, all the time, working and living and loving at full capacity, unceasingly. But we can't, and there is much to be gained by not trying, and by gifting ourselves a season to restore.”
― Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days

“So much of what people suffer with is rooted in unresolved mental and emotional pain. People everywhere are addicted to false forms of comfort to manage their misery. If we would learn to ask the right questions and invite the Holy Spirit to share His truth, we would experience a multitude of miraculous healings.”
― Laura Gagnon, The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read

“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“You were not made to tend to the grave of your mistakes because God removed the coffin and backfilled the hole.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“His Word is not mere pages. It is a spirit that animates His words to touch a soul in need of restoration.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“God’s word is a safe space for communication, correction, revitalization, restoration, preservation and validation. It establishes a fundamental basis for understanding the divine revelation.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“Living under God’s grace means walking in the assurance that He will preserve and sustain you, no matter the struggle.”
― Manuela Izunwa

“To ensure that Catherine would settle into her new role as queen, letters were dispatched, with Charles addressing her as ‘my wife and lady’ and declaring that ‘for me, the signing of the marriage has been great happiness’, as though no thought of backing out in favour of an unspecified voluptuous Italian had ever occurred to him.”
― Sophie Shorland, Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England

“To put it crassly, Charles II was most interested in his new bride’s money.”
― Sophie Shorland, Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England

“Focus on the restoration of your life. Let go of whatever you lost in the past.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“Justice names both the wound and the weapon, even when they reside in the same person.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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“No matter what is happening, in most cases there is a path forward. Move forward appreciating facts, holding a picture of the ideal outcome in mind. Move with kindness, thoughtfulness, and care. And if there isn't a path already, it's time to carve it.”
― Grace Gibraltar, PhD