Top 60 Cameron Dokey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”

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2. “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.”

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3. “A cornered animal is almost as dangerous as a wounded one.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “No matter who you are, you are answerable to yourself.”

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6. “Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues.”

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7. “I love you, Papa,” I said. “And I love you,” my father replied. “I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done.”

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8. “Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.”

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9. “Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.”

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10. “Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”

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13. “If you have to ask, you’ve never been in love. More than that, you’ve never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.”

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14. “I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there’s no point in trying to stop them. They’re going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.”

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15. “But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.”

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16. “Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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.”

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19. “The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “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?”

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24. “A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.”

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25. “Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.”

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26. “I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “The most powerful wish there is, one that is a birth and death wish, all at the same time.”

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29. “For in hope’s absence, a miracle arrived.”

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30. “Nothing is truly impossible. It’s all a matter of looking at things in just the right way.”

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31. “Whatever my destiny is, it’s mine and nobody else’s.”

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32. “Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”

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33. “But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.”

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34. “I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.”

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35. “I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”

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36. “The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.”

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37. “When someone refuses to speak, those around him are left to imagine what his thoughts might be, and all too often the possibilities conjured up are not pleasant ones... Sometimes, no matter how much you wish to proclaim them, it is better to keep your thoughts to yourself. Speaking out when someone else is silent puts the speaker at a disadvantage.”

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38. “Would make me blind to the needs of my country, while you and these others, having only love for country and none for my daughter, must be considered neutral?”

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39. “The power of her magic had snatched me from death. But it was the power of my own love which would give me the life I wanted.”

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40. “It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.”

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41. “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?”

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42. “A home is a place one’s heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.”

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43. “Really believing in “once upon a time”. Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you’ve never been before.”

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44. “Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.”

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45. “September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.”

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46. “Even a fool could become dangerous when armed with a secret.”

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47. “Stories are tricky things, aren’t they?”

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48. “There are two things in the world you must never give up on... And those two things are yourself and love.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”

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