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.

Ajahn Chah

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• Meditation
• Overcoming
• Laziness

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• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• 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.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• 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.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Different
  • True
  • Unique

• Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Democracy
  • Leadership

• I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

  

  Lee Grant

• Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • Future
  • Present

• I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • People
  • Time

• God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • World
  • God
  • Color

• I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Beautiful
  • Famous

• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

  

  Epictetus
  • Opinion
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Freda Adler
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • High
  • Water
  • Risk

• I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up

• I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be an extremely challenging road. No movie is easy; no movie has come together quickly.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Road

• If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World

• I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • She
  • Wife
  • Moments

• When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Effort

• If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Actors

• Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Moments
  • Effort
  • Meditation