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
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • 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

• Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • 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

• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Influence
  • Changes
  • Harmony

• One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Learn
  • Give Up
  • Catch

• For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

  

  Gareth Hock
  • Missing
  • Really
  • Swim

• A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

  

  Black Hawk
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Grandfather

• People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Worst
  • Scared

• 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