Quotes of Dorothy Allison

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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

- Dorothy Allison

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“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett