We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can stop shadowing us. Our lives are touched by those who lived centuries ago, and we hope that our lives will mean something to people who won't be alive until centuries from now. It's a great "chain of being, " someone once told me, and I think our job is to do the best we can to hold up our small segment of the chain connected, unbroken. Our arms are linked - we try to be neighbors of His, and to speak up for his principles. That's a lifetime's job. Dorothy Day
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way...
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Orson Scott Card
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
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Margaret George
Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the cavernous void. Bridgemen cried out in dismay. Syl zipped about...
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Brandon Sanderson
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
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Albert Einstein
Whose little boy are you?
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More Quotes By Dorothy Day
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
