Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass. . . ourselves. And this is but progress.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
It's better to prepare than to repair.
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.
Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. ”
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.
Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.
I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
The damage done to U. S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
