"My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with."

-- Dorothy Day

#Party Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Movement Quotes

“How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.”
“the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.”
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
“Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.”
“Six years-six little years-six drops of time.”
“I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.”
“My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.”
“What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.”

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