Gautama Buddha Quotes

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

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• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mind
  • Society
  • You

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Mind
  • May
  • Free

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Things

• Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Different
  • Mind

• In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Mind
  • War
  • Kind

• I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Police

• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• What would you suggest I do? Give everything away and walk the streets? The Buddhist says, 'Get rid of the possessions of the mind.' Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that. It's like the Beatles. I couldn't walk away from the Beatles. That's one possession that's still tagging along, right?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Walking

• Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. ... but we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Justice

• When we're on Twitter, we're not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Live

• The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Creates
  • Dominates