52 Quotes by Dorothy Gilman

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

There are no happy endings there are only happy people.

The best things arrive on time.

Sometimes I think we’re all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we’re okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.

It’s compassion that makes gods of us.

People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.