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Things Quotes by Dorothy Day
- The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is…
- Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
- Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with…
- The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
- As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things…
- If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith,…
- Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
- True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some…
- To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things.…
- God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle