Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.Bhikkhu Bodhi
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
Barkhad Abdi -
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
Taylor Swift -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
Garret Dillahunt
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie Chan -
For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
Saffron Burrows -
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
Ramakrishna -
Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
Jack Kerouac -
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…
Orson Pratt -
You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.
Lionel Richie
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
Ayn Rand -
'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
Lee Kuan Yew -
I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
Anish Kapoor -
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
Kevin DeYoung -
Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
David Leitch
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
John Polanyi -
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William James -
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
Camille Pissarro -
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.
Bhikkhu Bodhi