Doe Quotes - Page 307

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back into 20 or 40 or 60 hours of a television series. I think a great movie is really amazing. But, television does give you a larger canvas.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.

Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.