Gautama Buddha Quotes

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

Gautama Buddha

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• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Lost
  • City
  • Radio

• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Live
  • Character

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Character
  • Play
  • Look

• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• There's no map to human behaviour.

  

  Bjork

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Great
  • Explore

• Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

  

  James Montgomery
  • Hope

• Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • She
  • Character
  • Book

• Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Good

• I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Prince

• For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'

  

  Ne-Yo

• I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Together

• During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

  

  Ching Hai
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Spiritual

• Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Road
  • Mercy
  • Breath

• Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Up
  • Public
  • Worth

• How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Meditation
  • Breath
  • Mindfulness