Ajahn Chah Quotes
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
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I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
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I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.
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God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
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I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
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I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
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Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
