Doe Quotes - Page 158

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Love does not want or fear anything.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine...

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Your future does not equal your past. Tomorrow is full of possibility you can access right now

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.