Doris Betts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.
-- Doris Betts

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All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.
-- Doris Betts

#Wall #Writing #Feelings
The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.
-- Doris Betts

#Creativity #Opposites #Creative
My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can’t, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you’ll make a wonderful life.
-- Doris Betts

#Jobs #Remember You #Remembers You

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Doris Betts famous quotes

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