Doe Quotes - Page 45

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? ... Where does the proof use the hypothesis?

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.