Ajahn Chah Quotes
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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What matters most is the win.
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I do not like violence.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
