Gautama Buddha Quotes
"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
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If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
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I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
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The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
