Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt. Dorothy Gilman More Quotes by Dorothy Gilman More Quotes From Dorothy Gilman The best things arrive on time. Dorothy Gilman best-things numb People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food. Dorothy Gilman dream motivational people There are no happy endings, there are only happy people. Dorothy Gilman happy-people happy-endings people ... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry. Dorothy Gilman memories people past We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light. Dorothy Gilman invisibility light life-is A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. Dorothy Gilman ashes hot men 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. Dorothy Gilman numb waiting too-late ... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. Dorothy Gilman clothes old-friends book 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. Dorothy Gilman air two thinking What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened. Dorothy Gilman garden time past Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self. Dorothy Gilman discovering self common When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again. Dorothy Gilman never-change impact memories It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves. Dorothy Gilman design choices journey will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later. Dorothy Gilman fanaticism compromise when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness. Dorothy Gilman gourds use world my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other. Dorothy Gilman asparagus rebellion ends Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed. Dorothy Gilman matter knows children Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. Dorothy Gilman boredom hell too-much It's compassion that makes gods of us. Dorothy Gilman compassion People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. Dorothy Gilman need dreams food people
