Ajahn Chah Quotes
We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
Ajahn Chah
Quotes to Explore
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon Hill
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
Karen Joy Fowler
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
Lara Stone
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Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Harrison Ford
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
Pat Brown
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(Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'
Kamisese Mara
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
Maimonides
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin
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Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
Alan Keyes
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How can it be 'mutually beneficial' to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering, and to buy at world market prices the machinery produced in today's big automated factories?
Che Guevara
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.
Andrew Linzey
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When it's the same team that's created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.
Jacqueline Fernandez
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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
Ajahn Chah
