"When it comes down to it, even on……" — Dorothy Day

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

— Dorothy Day

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107 Quotes by Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day has 107 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of…
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed,…
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time…
Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience…
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all…
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to…

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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No… — Lance Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for… — Rowan Atkinson
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as… — Chinua Achebe

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