Cathy Donnelly > Cathy's Quotes

“We are taught that God made our planet in six days.

Some know of an ancient story which tells that although He was well pleased with His work, God decided His world needed a special touch of magic.

So, on the seventh day, God created Scotland.

Cathy M. Donnelly”
― Cathy M. Donnelly, There is a Place

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?”
― Anthony Douglas Williams., Inside the Divine Pattern

“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Don't let your age control your life. Let your life control your age.”
― Anthony Douglas Williams, Inside the Divine Pattern

“When our actions are based on good intentions our soul has not regrets.”
― Anthony Douglas Williams

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“My friends have made the story of my life.”
― Helen Keller

“Your life AFTER Christ is not static or an end result. You are not suspended in grace above the fray of life. You are looking at God through a kaleidoscope. Your life moves, and the beads shift, and something new emerges. You are defining. Redefining. Figuring it out all over again. You are in motion, in transit, in flux. You will be sad. You will be happy. You will love and doubt and cry and rage, and all of it matters. You are human, and you are beloved, and this is what it is to be Alive.”
― Addie Zierman, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I do not fear death. I see what has gone before, through eyes that are not of this body. When I dream, my visions are of days yet to be.”
― Cathy M. Donnelly

“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.”
― Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty

“There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do." There”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“No man is an enemy. No man is a friend. Everyman is a teacher”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor