Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Thoughts
  • Now

• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Take

• I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Take
  • Nap

• I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Take

• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Thoughts

• Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Sometimes
  • Take
  • Were

• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Free
  • Faith

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Time
  • Being
  • Take

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Attitude

• The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Giving
  • Attitude
  • Commitment

• I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Time
  • Serious

• Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys, terror. That's what art is about, and we don't want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Art
  • Feeling
  • Violence

• Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude
  • Take