David Paul Kirkpatrick > Quotes

“Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Love is the reason why, in confusion, we understand.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“For human beings must be served, not exploited, honored, not manipulated.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“We must only believe.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“When they would return to one another from their solitariness, they returned gently as dew comes to the morning grass.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“And in the fall, the cold would wither that which was known, scattering new seed. In the spring, that which had been sleeping awoke and a new season of beauty began. For Life seeks life and builds a bridge across the darkest valley.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“There they were walking together in the same direction, holding hands. That’s what love can do. Love makes it better.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Without the scrape, there is no scar."

“I could live without the scars.”

“But that’s where the music is.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, Breakfast in the temple

“Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

“The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It is not a circle, but an arrow. It flies forward with the great express of Love.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart, there, the veil will drop. The arc of the seas shall finally know the skies. Day and night shall end. The clock tower will crumble. Time shall fly to the place of no more. For we were born for meaning. We were born to love. There, we shall all be together with all the lovelies ever known who chose mercy and kindness amidst the forget-me-nots and the countless stars.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness