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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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
