Ajahn Chah Quotes
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill
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I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
Ian Mckellen
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
Dan Wheldon
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo
HIM
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Claude McKay
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Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
Kirk Douglas
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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
Emmanuelle Beart
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It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.
Dave Bautista
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
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We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.
Alfie Allen
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God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
R. C. Sproul
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
Michael Palin
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Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
W Mitchell
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[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.
George Arthur Buttrick
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah
