Doe Quotes - Page 69

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

What God does, He does well.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

Keep going don't worry about results. If you love it why does it matter?

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!