Bankei Yōtaku Quotes
When your parents gave you life, there wasn’t a trace of selfish desire, bad habits or self-centerednesss. But from the age of four or five you picked up the mean things, you saw other people do and the bad things you heard them say, so that gradually as you matured, growing up badly, you developed selfish desire, which in turn produced self-centeredness. Deluded by this self-centeredness, you then proceeded to create every sort of evil. If it weren’t for being centered on yourself, delusions would not arise. When delusions do not arise, that is none other than abiding in the Unborn Buddha Mind…Bankei Yōtaku
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
Hal Sparks -
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
Candace Kita -
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley -
I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
Aaron Paul -
Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
Earl Weaver
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
Natalie Maines -
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher -
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader -
What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
Pamela Sargent -
'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
Abbi Glines -
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
Uzo Aduba -
I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
Kat Edmonson -
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
Karen Allen -
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.
Jack Canfield -
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken -
Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.
Eric Lynn Wright
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Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.
J. G. Ballard -
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh -
I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.
Elif Batuman -
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Phil Ramone -
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
Joe Frazier -
When your parents gave you life, there wasn’t a trace of selfish desire, bad habits or self-centerednesss. But from the age of four or five you picked up the mean things, you saw other people do and the bad things you heard them say, so that gradually as you matured, growing up badly, you developed selfish desire, which in turn produced self-centeredness. Deluded by this self-centeredness, you then proceeded to create every sort of evil. If it weren’t for being centered on yourself, delusions would not arise. When delusions do not arise, that is none other than abiding in the Unborn Buddha Mind…
Bankei Yōtaku