Ajahn Chah Quotes

If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

Ajahn Chah

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

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

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Meaning
  • Excited

• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Being

• I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • World
  • Moving
  • Grow

• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Ryan Gosling

• Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Together

• I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God
  • Men
  • Beginning

• Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• 'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Fear

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Work
  • Food
  • Health

• I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Done
  • Movie

• As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you'll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you'll get feedback on your product. It's worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Experience
  • Entrepreneur
  • Sales

• I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Faith

• I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Book
  • Adventure

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • Pain

• Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Broken
  • Outside
  • Theories

• If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering