Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end. Cameron Dokey More Quotes by Cameron Dokey More Quotes From Cameron Dokey Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone. Cameron Dokey taken uplifting gone My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to my feet. Speak to me, I thought. And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus: Have you lost your mind? Cameron Dokey lips feet mind In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy. Cameron Dokey straightforward spite simple 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. Cameron Dokey color would-be love-you 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. Cameron Dokey thrive accepted needs For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived Cameron Dokey miracle absence What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. 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. Cameron Dokey done stories long You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them. Cameron Dokey pride names enemy 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. Cameron Dokey would-be faces world Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first. Cameron Dokey taste may sweet I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love. Cameron Dokey true-love risk ordinary 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. Cameron Dokey your-side dark thinking It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all. Cameron Dokey different-experiences grief two 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. Cameron Dokey change-for-the-better mind may I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out? Cameron Dokey dream might thinking 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. Cameron Dokey daughter trying water 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. Cameron Dokey zucchini garden land A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it. Cameron Dokey sickness faults kind As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope. Cameron Dokey space imagination opportunity In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself. Cameron Dokey arrows father thinking