Restorative Quotes

#1. Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

Tabitha King

#2. The cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.

Desmond Tutu

#3. The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

Ellen MacArthur

#4. It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice ... Restorative justice is a fad.

Douglas Carswell

#5. Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Pam Brown

#6. Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#7. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

Jonathan Rauch

#8. I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.

Roma Downey

#9. The restorative touch of our wounded healer, Jesus, highlights our brokenness, letting others know we're distinctly God's. - Scoti Springfield Domeij -

Gary Chapman

#10. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Keith Donohue

#11. Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

Timothy Keller

#12. I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

Mark Nepo

#13. I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Jason Lewis

#14. Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

#15. There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Desmond Tutu

#16. I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Ethan Hawke

#17. Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

George Saintsbury

#18. Restorative niche' is Professor Little's term for the place you go when you want to return to your true self. It can be a physical place, like the path beside the Richelieu River, or a temporal one, like the quiet breaks you plan between sales calls.

Susan Cain

#19. I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

Mike Love

#20. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative.

Christopher Paolini

#22. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.

Douglas Preston

#23. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

Amory Lovins

#24. There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Sue Miller

#25. If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

Roma Downey

#26. When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying, restorative and life-changing. It was something that "got you through the tough times," which "any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity." God was a trip to Cancun.

Marisha Pessl

#27. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Pope John Paul II

#28. I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Barry Lopez

#29. There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.

Susan Cain

#31. Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Lewis B. Smedes

#32. The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

Jonathan Franzen

#33. But a half hour or an hour of quiet, restful solitary time during the day is restorative at any age, and a habit worth cultivating.

Kim John Payne

#34. Be it painting, writing, dancing, or singing, art is restorative!

Sally Loughridge

#35. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Thomas Jefferson

#36. The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

Emily Saliers

#37. I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.

Lauren Oliver

#38. The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

Pope John Paul II

#39. Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

Grace Gealey

#40. The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking.

Roz Savage

#41. To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,

James Davison Hunter