Bill Porter Quotes

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

Bill Porter

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• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Nature
  • Walking
  • Explore

• I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Conservatism

• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Man

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Running

• … honoring one’s created nature

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature

• Freud says, 'Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.' Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Taken
  • Boy

• As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Nature

• A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature

• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • God
  • Nature

• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Art
  • Nature

• Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Nature

• For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Study
  • Obvious

• The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT- ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Management

• You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Golf
  • Random

• When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Buddha