Top 40 David Paul Kirkpatrick Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes, it’s important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it’s critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

2. “Be angry. But don’t be bitter.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

3. “We were put on this magical planet, not to dominate and consume her, but to care for her and love her. To harrow gently. To harvest gratefully. To build reasonably.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

4. “This darkness will not last forever. You’ll see. Eventually, there will be stars.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

5. “The earth is my altar, the moon my candle.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

6. “Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.”

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7. “God made the wolf but man made the dog. When we look at a dog, we see the best in ourselves.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

8. “Never look back unless backwards is your destination.”

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9. “Master the dog and you shall master yourself.”

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10. “The world is my nation. Humanity is my family. To do good is my spiritual praxis. I often stumble, but past my own divisions, I sometimes glimpse the one in the all.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

11. “She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.”

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12. “I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.”

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13. “I am all for science, but science can never tell us why we find the stars so beautiful.”

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14. “Take heart. Love has overcome the wild world. Dogs were once wolves.”

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15. “Light swallows darkness. Compassion eats fear. And life is romance as well as science.”

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16. “When I die, never say that I am gone. The sun sets. The moon fades. My body perishes. But my leaving has nothing to do with being gone. I will stay forever with you.”

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17. “I love you, Shadow. I want you to go now,” Theo said quiet-ly. “You can go, Shadow. Walk with me. C’mon, I’m just ahead of you. Come on, climb away from that old body of yours. Walk with me. Do you see me? I’m just ahead of you on the beach. See? You can now run fast ’cause you have all your legs, again. Can you feel them, boy?”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

18. “There is peace in play.”

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19. “It is easy to kill a demon. It is much harder to kill a man.”

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20. “Because you tred upon my dreams, the world is made of magic things.”

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21. “The storm arrived without warning.”

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22. “The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.”

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23. “This dog, who shall be under your care, belongs to the best of humankind’s creation. For man transformed that which he feared into something which could love him. The dog, Theo, is the great witness to the one truth. There is but the one truth. Four words like my tale. The truth is this: Love triumphs over fear.”

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24. “For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.”

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25. “I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha. Why is that so hard for my fellow Christians to grasp?”

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26. “All life is sacred! Even the blessed earth you take into your mouth.”

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27. “The world is my nation. Humanity is my family. To do good is my spiritual praxis.”

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28. “Theo watched as the cat vanished over the tie, following the walking ghost of his dog into the vast pouring-out of the teeming, bone-white, snow-white immensities.”

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29. “Shadow’s heart stopped. While Theo did not observe it with his eyes, he felt the life juice leave the dog’s body. In the final shudder of the death throe, Shadow gave up his ghost.”

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30. “As a worldling wishes, so the world is formed.”

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31. “Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.”

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32. “It would have been easy for Theo to grow ironic. He could walk through life with a paradoxical chip on his shoulder, with skin like armor. But Alice did not want to raise a boy who looked at life askew. Alice wanted her son to greet the day with elation. She wanted to raise her boy into a wholesome man.”

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33. “All the forgotten beauty of his twenty-nine years poured over Theo. The beauty of such memory filled him. He watched as the white cat with the electric-blue eyes turned away. There, in front of the cat, stood the bright bridge, the tie between the immense eternities, of time before birth, of time after death. The ghosts of the yet-to-be-born and the ghosts of the dead both hovered amidst the white-breasted nuthatches poking their pecking beaks into the snow, searching for seed.”

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34. “When we look at a dog, we see the best in ourselves.”

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35. “They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.”

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36. “Dogs were once wolves.”

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37. “I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.”

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38. “What good are we if we can’t imagine?”

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39. “I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha.”

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40. “We did it, boy,” she said. Her words pricked his ears. He watched her radiant smile. “Theo is a lover,” she whispered.”

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