Ovid Quotes, Doe Quotes, Longing Quotes

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Doe Quotes

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Doe Quotes , Apologizing Quotes

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Expectations Quotes , Doe Quotes

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Winning Quotes , Doe Quotes

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Hands Quotes , Doe Quotes

How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?

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Tags : Akiane Kramarik Quotes , Doe Quotes , Infinity Quotes

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

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Tags : Aaron Belz Quotes , Mean Quotes , Doe Quotes

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Doe Quotes

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Desire Quotes , Doe Quotes

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Doe Quotes

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Doe Quotes

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Doe Quotes

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Doe Quotes , Cost Quotes

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Gold Quotes , Doe Quotes

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Believe Quotes , Doe Quotes

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Taoism Quotes , Doe Quotes

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

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Tags : Alain Prost Quotes , Scare Quotes , Doe Quotes