Gautama Buddha Quotes
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
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You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
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We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?
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Success is overrated.
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I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
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Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
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Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.
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I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
