S. N. Goenka Quotes

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

S. N. Goenka

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Death is a monster; death is horrible.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Monster
  • Horrible

• I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham.'

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • View
  • Conditions

• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Failure

• The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana

• When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.

  

  Emma Roberts

• I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Work
  • Great
  • She

• Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People

• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Heart

• Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Future

• Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Together

• Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Experience

• I believe love's grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Believe

• I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Fashion

• Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Perfect

• The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Why
  • Freedom
  • Understanding

• The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

  

  S. N. Goenka
  • Buddha