Ajahn Brahm Quotes

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

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• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Good
  • Know
  • Election

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Man
  • Party
  • Proud

• I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Never
  • Read
  • Mockingbird

• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Life
  • Time
  • True

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Film
  • Excited

• I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Chance

• I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Game
  • Free

• Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Apple

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Want

• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Culture
  • Civil Society
  • Sceptics

• Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
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