Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

Mechai Viravaidya

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • School
  • Family

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Family
  • High
  • Financial

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Long
  • Family

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Family
  • House

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

  

  Clarice Taylor
  • Family
  • Education
  • Insanity

• It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Important
  • She
  • Honor

• No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Drugs
  • Achieved
  • Proved

• Friends and family are vitally important for an individual who is struggling to return to the gospel path. Those around such a person must refrain from judging. They must do all they can to show love.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

  

  Mechai Viravaidya
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Planning