Doe Quotes - Page 9

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

When one is painting one does not think.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.