Doe Quotes - Page 48

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Let em' know that amidst all the confusion; some of us may do the winnin but.. We all do the losin, it's just who does the choosin

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.