Gautama Buddha Quotes

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Gautama Buddha

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• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Movie
  • Saying

• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Silent
  • Affairs

• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Mad

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Noise
  • Symphony

• I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Song
  • Myself
  • Silent

• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Music
  • Always
  • Noise

• It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Shopping
  • Silent

• I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Business
  • Body
  • Bigger

• Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Alone
  • Color
  • Noise

• Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Words
  • Interesting

• And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stop
  • Mad
  • Information

• We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Should
  • Window
  • Noise

• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Life
  • Noise
  • Bombs

• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Noise

• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opportunity
  • Noise
  • Pessimist

• I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

  

  Agathe Snow
  • Running
  • Need
  • Noise

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Flower
  • Eden
  • Human Experience

• In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Problems
  • Ourselves
  • Reflecting

• Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Silent
  • Noise
  • Channels