When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Dorothy DayIdealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Dorothy DayWe cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
Dorothy DayPaperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
Dorothy Day