Gautama Buddha Quotes

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Gautama Buddha

• Intimacy
• Attains
• Abudance

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• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Intimacy

• 'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Different
  • Book
  • Couple

• The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Work
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • World
  • Alone
  • Communication

• Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Funny
  • Attention
  • Intimacy

• Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Real
  • Intimacy

• The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • True
  • Dying
  • Intimacy

• I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Intimacy

• Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Great
  • Intimacy

• I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Life
  • Intimacy

• What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Friends
  • Intimacy

• I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

  

  Armand Assante
  • People
  • Great
  • Intimacy

• Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • Respect
  • Distance

• I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

  

  David Walliams
  • Book
  • Emotional
  • Intimacy

• It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • America
  • Military

• This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Song

• The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Everything I know about makeup, I've learned from my sister.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Sister
  • Makeup

• Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Intimacy
  • Attains
  • Abudance