Dodie Smith Quotes
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.
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An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
