Doe Quotes - Page 451

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

When Death laughs, no one else does

How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.