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.

Ajahn Chah

• Heart
• Peace
• Humanity
• Ready
• Mustache
• Turtles

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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.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
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  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Hard
  • Survival
  • Reasons

• 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.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
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• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Better
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• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
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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.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dare

• 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.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Stop
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• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
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  • Today

• 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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  • Nature
  • College
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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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  • Cool

• 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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• I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

  

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• And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

  

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• Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Fall

• Our quarterly financial results reflect the continued difficult industry environment but also show some encouraging trends. Both US Airways' and America West's stand-alone results, excluding special charges, are much improved versus last year despite a nearly $200 million increase in expenses due to higher fuel prices.

  

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  • America
  • Environment
  • Reflect

• 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.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Heart
  • Peace
  • Humanity