Doe Quotes - Page 17

When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

So little of what could happen does happen.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Who does not grow, declines.

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.