Back Together Quotes - Page 10

• Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

  Deepak Chopra

  Together, Generations, Fabric

  "Just Capital: What the 99% Really Need (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Thinking, People

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• We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.

  Wendell Berry

  Responsibility, Government, Together Again

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• She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

  Anne Lamott

  Together, Mosaics, Littles

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.61, Anchor

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• When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.

  Ilona Andrews

  Broken, Get Better, Together

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.85, Penguin

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• Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

  Marilyn Manson

  Together, Pieces, Vases

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Together, Stitches, Remember

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Together

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• Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

  Bucky Sinister

  Inspirational, Recovery, Sobriety

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.168, Conari Press

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• If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Eagles, Together

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• You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

  Carrie Jones

  Together, Stronger, Glue

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.100, A&C Black

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• The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pie, Trying, Together

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• There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Powerful, Ego, Together

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.

  David Letterman

  Valentines Day, Together, Beets

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• Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Mean, Fullness Of Life

  "God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Peter Seewald, 2002.

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• I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

  Tori Amos

  Sex, Night, Years

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Forever, Together, Feels

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