James W. Douglass famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.
-- James W. Douglass

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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions â€” light and darkness mixed.
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

James W. Douglass famous quotes

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