Fayrene Duncan Quotes & Sayings

Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection. — Patricia E. Deegan

[T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy ... — Vincent De Paul

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline. — Forrest Gander

Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

David: There's nothing so pulverizing to a son's psyche than a father's disregard for his own child's worth. — John C. Stipa