Ajahn Chah Quotes

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

Ajahn Chah

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  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

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  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

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• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

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  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
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• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

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  • Me
  • Amazing
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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
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  • Real

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Animal

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

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  • Up
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• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

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• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

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  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

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  • Life
  • Man
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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

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  • End
  • Train

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  • Live
  • I Can
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• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

  

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  • Reality
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

  

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  • You
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  • Age
  • Giving
  • Christian

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

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  • Runner

• I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

  

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  • Defense
  • Instant
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• Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Suffering