Gautama Buddha Quotes

Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

Gautama Buddha

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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Never
  • Changes

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • You
  • Changes
  • Cloud

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Ego
  • Changes
  • Self

• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

• It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Understanding

• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Business
  • Changes
  • Now

• Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Value
  • Inspiration
  • Changes

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Balance
  • Changes
  • Enthusiasm

• I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Think
  • Impossible
  • Changes

• Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Vision
  • Daily
  • Changes

• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • American
  • Past

• I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Education
  • Change
  • Changes

• None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Changes
  • Destruction
  • Considered

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Education
  • Brain

• Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Changes
  • Give Up
  • Monkeys