Ajahn Brahm Quotes

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love – the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

Ajahn Brahm

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• Life
• God
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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• Teachers alone can't educate young people.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Alone
  • Young

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Great
  • Places
  • Modeling

• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  

  Vanna White
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

  

  Fabio Capello
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Control
  • Successful
  • Unsuccessful

• You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Work

• I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Stupid

• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  

  Valerie Worth
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love – the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • People
  • Life
  • God