Gautama Buddha Quotes

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Gautama Buddha

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Old
  • Listen
  • Often

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Like
  • Read

• I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Breakfast
  • Eat

• I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Actor
  • Fan
  • Bollywood

• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• I love trade. I love trade. First, it's economic freedom. It's the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it's a jobs issue.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Freedom

• My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

  

  Brian Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • True

• You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Boy

• Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Efforts