Dodie Smith Quotes
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.
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I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
