Ajahn Chah Quotes
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.
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Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
