Quotes
Authors
Dorothy Kelley Patterson
"My children will not remember the words of wisdom I’ve passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you’ve given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you’ve lived before them." --
Dorothy Kelley Patterson
#Children Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Years Quotes
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
“If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.”
“The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.”
“Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.”
“He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.”
“When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.”
“The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean." "Who's-" "Because you're gay.”
“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”