Doe Quotes - Page 73

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.