Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
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When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
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Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
