Gautama Buddha Quotes

...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

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• Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Heaven

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Heaven
  • Chinese
  • River

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Business
  • Model
  • Conduct

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Heaven

• ...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Waiting

• The difficultest rigor is forthwith, On the image of what we see, to catch from that Irrational moment its unreasoning, As when the sun comes rising, when the sea Clears deeply, when the moon hangs on the wall Of heaven-haven. These are not things transformed. Yet we are shaken by them as if they were. We reason about them with a later reason.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heaven
  • Sun
  • Wall

• I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Heaven
  • Wonder

• Nice to meet you, where you been?I could show you incredible things.Magic, madness, heaven, sin.Saw you there and I thought.Oh my God, look at that face.You look like my next mistake.Love's a game, wanna play?.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • God
  • Game
  • Nice

• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• 'Cause when you got love, like we got love.I'm holding on to heaven, holding onto you.When you got one, like I got one.Anyway you looking, it's a hell of a view.Don't know where we're gonna be, but I know we're be sitting on top of the world.So keep hanging onto me.Yeah, don't you wanna be sitting on top of the world?Top of the world.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Heaven

• Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,A mind serene for contemplation:Title and profit I resign;The post of honour shall be mine.

  

  John Gay
  • Mind
  • Heaven

• If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

  

  Janice Fyffe
  • Up
  • God

• With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Perfect
  • Better
  • Imperfection

• A sound body keeps a sound mind.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Mind

• The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Fingers
  • Reformers

• ...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heaven
  • Qualities
  • Conduct