Doings Quotes (page 555)

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• wishes
• happy alone
• happy love

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. Napoleon Bonaparte

• manly
• owns
• spike

It is only the story... that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us. Chinua Achebe

• crying
• justice
• together

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is. Howard Zinn

• consider
• hope
• science

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition. Carl Sagan

• giving
• may
• saying

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Robert Louis Stevenson

• hope
• kiss
• swimming

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss. Chuck Palahniuk

• death
• bird
• end

McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, "Till death do them part. Ken Kesey

• god
• look
• sometimes

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you? Tori Amos

• die
• everybody
• happened

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card

• job
• real
• society

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• you me
• god
• question

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today? John C. Maxwell

• change
• enemy
• destroyer

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. George Orwell

• tea
• thanks
• thankful

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith

• wings
• without
• them

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. Coco Chanel

• best
• good
• best things

The best thing you can do is get very good at being you. Thomas Wilson