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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

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• Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Dress

• I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Courage
  • Virtue
  • Point

• I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Star
  • Actor

• Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Music
  • God
  • Experience

• That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Love
  • Truth
  • For Her

• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Bed

• I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Football

• Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Can Do
  • Until

• Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Remember
  • History

• The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Two

• Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Walking

• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

  

  Plato
  • Exercise
  • Slavery
  • Lessons

• If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

  

  Ajahn Chah
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