Doe Quotes - Page 78

Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?