Dodinsky Quotes

#1. If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

John Bunyan

#2. If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.

Dodinsky

#3. Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

Barbara Jordan

#4. ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.

Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat's *ss? H*lls no.

Cambria Hebert

#5. When someone leaves you, it doesn't give you permission to run away from yourself too.

Dodinsky

#6. Don't assume I have everything figured out ... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

Leslie Mann

#7. You have to love yourself
because no amount of love
from others is sufficient to
fill the yearning that your soul
requires from you.

Dodinsky

#8. In the evenings, before I went to sleep, and in the mornings, in the moment I woke up, I realized I was praying for rain.

Makoto Shinkai

#9. It is a fact of life that injustice has no color and stupidity comes in all colors. Still I am grateful and believe the world is brimming with people whose hearts are colorblind. In my eyes, they are the most resplendent.

Dodinsky

#10. The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

C.S. Lewis

#11. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.

Charles Dickens

#12. A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
one friend who always makes her laugh ... and one who
lets her cry ...

Pamela Redmond Satran

#13. in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before

William Maxwell

#14. It is better to try to form a learned opinion than to dispense an ill-conceived one and rush to the judgment of others.

Dodinsky

#15. I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system.

Dave Barry

#16. Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Dodinsky

#17. We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree - deeply rooted to withstand all life's upheavals.

Dodinsky

#18. To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.

Dodinsky

#19. Do not become a stranger to yourself by blending in with everyone else.

Dodinsky

#20. When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.

Dodinsky

#21. So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread.

George Eliot

#22. I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that enters space and bounds off to another galaxy, a tune so pretty you think the words are true, you do!

Lorrie Moore

#23. Some people will never 'get you'. Do not spend eternity asking why. People will see you differently, just cherish those who lift your soul.

Dodinsky

#24. People relying on others or someone to complete them are delaying the opportunity to discover the person they are meant to be.

Dodinsky

#25. Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

William Blake

#26. Don't walk too far away from the child within you, and never abandon the sense of wonder that magnifies the smallest of things into mountains of joy. For one day, when you lose sight of happiness, that child within can guide you back to the things that once nourished your heart.

Dodinsky

#27. They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.

Dodinsky

#28. The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.

Dodinsky

#29. In a world now so obsessed with speed, we teachers must step back and learn to wait.

Adele Devine