Top 100 D Joan Quotes
#1. We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.
Joan D. Chittister
#2. We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
Joan D. Chittister
#3. Holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
Joan D. Chittister
#4. Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
Joan D. Vinge
#5. Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.
Joan D. Chittister
#6. I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.
Lena Headey
#7. The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge
#8. I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl.
Joan Rivers
#11. To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
Joan D. Vinge
#12. I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
Joan D. Vinge
#13. after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.
Joan D. Criddle
#14. Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
Joan D. Chittister
#15. Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
Joan D. Chittister
#16. And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
Joan D. Vinge
#17. I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
Joan Didion
#18. Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.
Joan D. Chittister
#19. There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
Joan D. Vinge
#20. All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.
Joan D. Vinge
#21. The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.
Joan D. Chittister
#22. Faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.
Joan D. Chittister
#23. We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.
Joan D. Chittister
#24. I have no sex appeal; if my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had the kid.
Joan Rivers
#25. He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.
Joan D. Vinge
#26. To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.
Joan D. Chittister
#27. Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Joan D. Vinge
#28. Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
Joan D. Chittister
#29. Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.
Joan D. Chittister
#30. If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
Joan Baez
#31. When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!
Joan Benoit
#32. Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
Joan D. Chittister
#33. Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.
Joan D. Chittister
#34. I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.
Joan Crawford
#35. Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.
Joan D. Chittister
#36. I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
#37. The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!
Joan D. Chittister
#38. It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
Joan Bauer
#39. The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Joan D. Chittister
#41. Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women to the fullness of life, the wholeness of soul, for which we were all made in the image and likeness of God.
Joan D. Chittister
#42. Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.
Joan D. Chittister
#43. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
Joan D. Chittister
#44. We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.
Joan D. Chittister
#45. I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference
Joan D. Chittister
#46. I'd like to play nothing but good characters.
Joan Leslie
#47. It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you ... just let me love you now.
Joan D. Vinge
#48. For the Jew, Passover is a sign of salvation, of "God with us" at a particular historical moment in the past. For the Christian, Easter is a sign of "God with us" in the past, but with us now also and at a time to come, as well.
Joan D. Chittister
#49. We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
Joan D. Chittister
#50. The attendant walked closer. "Where'd you come from, soldier?"
Tree tried to think of a recent war and coudn't, so he said, "Canada."
The attendant looked surprised. "Canada?"
"It was a secret mission," Grandpa said.
"It saved the Republic," Wild Man whispered.
Joan Bauer
#51. I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.
Melissa Joan Hart
#52. What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
Joan D. Vinge
#53. As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Joan D. Vinge
#54. Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves ... Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.
Joan D. Chittister
#55. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.
Joan D. Chittister
#56. There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
Joan D. Chittister
#58. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
Joan Armatrading
#59. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.
Garth Nix
#60. The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.
Joan D. Chittister
#61. I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian
and I stand by it: He's the daughter Cher wishes she'd had.
Joan Rivers
#62. All [people] are intolerant ... Only they're intolerant of different things.
Joan D. Vinge
#63. Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
Joan D. Vinge
#64. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.
Joan D. Vinge
#65. Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What kind of world is it that will not allow me to be myself, and is it really good for me to be there? What part of me will die a slow death if I stay?
Joan D. Chittister
#66. There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.
Joan Blondell
#67. Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
Joan D. Chittister
#68. Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge
#69. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
Joan D. Vinge
#70. Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
Joan D. Chittister
#71. If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
Joan D. Chittister
#72. We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance ... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Joan D. Vinge
#73. In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.
Joan D. Chittister
#74. Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Joan D. Vinge
#75. Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge
#76. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.
Joan D. Chittister
#77. It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside ...
Joan D. Chittister
#78. And in this matter, Gold, he'd said, rolling his eyes towards Frank, we have had an early advantage.
Joan London
#79. I mean, I'm a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn't have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we'd gulp it down. It was just great.
Joan Collins
#80. I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
Joan Baez
#81. These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Joan D. Vinge
#82. The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.
Joan D. Chittister
#83. Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing.
Joan D. Chittister
#84. What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in the spiritual domain except as a consumer of someone else's God?
Joan D. Chittister
#85. Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge.
Joan D. Vinge
#86. He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a whiff of ancient, buried cities.
Joan London
#87. General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#88. June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
Joan D. Chittister
#89. I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
Joan Cusack
#90. Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Joan D. Vinge
#91. Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. ... But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.
Joan D. Chittister
#92. Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.
Joan D. Chittister
#93. Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
Joan D. Chittister
#94. I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body.
Joan Rivers
#95. Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.
Joan D. Chittister
#96. Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.
Joan D. Chittister
#97. Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.
Joan D. Chittister
#98. Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.
Joan D. Chittister
#99. To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
Joan D. Chittister
#100. Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Joan D. Vinge
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