Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes

Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

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• Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
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• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
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• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • God
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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

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• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
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• Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Men
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• I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
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• The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sky
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• Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

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• Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

  

  David Tang

• One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
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• Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr. going through the things that you go through as a teenager with a disability. It's always his relationship to other characters. That was my issue with it.

  

  Zach Anner
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  • Relationship
  • Son

• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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  • Sex Pistols

• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Harmony
  • Exists

• Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Harmony
  • Ethics
  • Buddhism