"It is in the thousands of days of……" — Dani Shapiro
"It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive."
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55 Quotes by Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro has 55 quotes on this site.
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I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the…
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I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them…
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With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and…
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It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories…
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Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.
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Courage is more important than confidence
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You can start your day over anytime.
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Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape…
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In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer,…
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and…
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More Alert Quotes
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
— Kirstie Alley
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
— Barry Lopez
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain…
— Rajneesh
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