Deoch An Doris Quotes

#1. If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Aga Khan IV

#2. The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

Laozi

#4. A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

Maureen Johnson

#5. If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.

James Baldwin

#6. At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl S. Buck