Gautama Buddha Quotes

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Gautama Buddha

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• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
  • Bald

• Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Help

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
  • American
  • Wind

• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Find
  • River
  • Rowing

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Girl
  • Sea
  • River

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• I secretly want to shave my head.

  

  Zendaya
  • Want
  • Head
  • Shave

• In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • School
  • River

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Intelligence
  • Head

• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Head

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Culture
  • Western
  • Pashtun

• I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Music
  • River
  • Emptiness

• When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Game

• When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Writing

• I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Appreciate
  • Objects
  • Prudent

• A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • River
  • Head
  • Reached