Ajahn Chah Quotes
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.
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You are my superstar. I'm your number one fan, give me your autograph, sign it right here on my heart. Girl, I'll be your groupie, baby.
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A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.