"Where we live in the world is never……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them."
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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More Dogged Quotes
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
— Jeb Bush
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend…
— Dalai Lama
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
— Bobby Jones
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And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't…
— Cheryl Rainfield
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There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave,…
— Jocelynne Scutt
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can…
— Graham Swift
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
— Edward Sapir
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The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly…
— Don Mattingly
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The…
— Bear Grylls
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Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought…
— Andre Weil
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