Cameron Dokey Quotes
That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.
Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.
Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.
How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.
In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.
I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.
That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.
But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.
Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.
But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.
Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.
But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.
Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.