Ajahn Chah Quotes

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

Ajahn Chah

• Song
• Teach
• Bird
• Confusion
• Peaceful

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  • World
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• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

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• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

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• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

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• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

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• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

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• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

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• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  

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  • Work
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  • God

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• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

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• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

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  • Defense
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  • Way
  • Happiness
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• What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

  

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  • Good
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• The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Song
  • Teach
  • Bird