God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
Dorothy DayRecording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
Dorothy DayIdealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Dorothy DayThe mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
Dorothy DayYou will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Dorothy DayThe works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
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