Ajahn Chah Quotes

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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• When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Privileged

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Find

• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Saying

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Children
  • Habit

• Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

  

  John McGahern
  • People
  • Beautiful

• For whatever the will and energy of a man may be, human strength has a limit, and this limit had been reached.

  

  Alfred Dreyfus
  • Energy
  • Limit
  • Reached

• I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Law
  • Never
  • Practice

• Worry is negative goal setting.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Worry
  • Goal
  • Negative

• We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Enlightenment
  • Increase