Doe Quotes - Page 94

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. Its good that its that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.