Quotes on Doe

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.