Doe Quotes - Page 154

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

Change does not take time - it takes commitment.

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others.