Gautama Buddha Quotes
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
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'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste!
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
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Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.
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I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
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The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
