Gautama Buddha Quotes

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Me
  • Write
  • See

• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Start

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Plants

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Picture

• 'If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore

• As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Truth

• To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Country
  • Nature

• Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • You
  • Eye
  • Look

• A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • God
  • True

• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • History
  • Failure
  • Frustration

• The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Nature
  • Emotions
  • Pure