Doe Quotes - Page 40

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

We wait always for something that does not come.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

The Lord has a plan for us in this life. He knows us. He knows what is best for us. Just because things are going well does not mean that we should not from time to time consider whether there might be something better. If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.