Doings Quotes (page 861)

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• greatness
• pain
• pride

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

• hurt
• she
• evening

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding. Jodi Picoult

• evening
• dark
• thinking

For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. Virginia Woolf

• childhood
• hard
• hardly

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• stupid
• stupidity
• other

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid. Ken Follet

• humanity
• character
• humanness

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut

• work
• humanity
• stupid

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked R. Buckminster Fuller

• saying
• mindfulness
• cat

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names. T. S. Eliot

• understanding
• teaching
• teaches

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle

• mindfulness
• looking back
• reflection

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore. Amy Tan

• time
• fall
• money

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom share my body and life and money and energy with. Elizabeth Gilbert

• counted
• intentions
• count

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. Pablo Picasso

• love
• lovingly
• everybody

I'm young as morningand fresh as dew. Everybody loves meand so do you. Maya Angelou

• sad love
• long love
• enough is enough

Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how. In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now. James Joyce

• powerful
• power
• magic

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. J. K. Rowling