Gautama Buddha Quotes

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones.

Gautama Buddha

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

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• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

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• I have a great office.

  

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• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

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• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

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• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

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• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

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• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

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• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

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• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

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• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

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• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

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• Political development should start at the grassroots.

  

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• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

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• As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

  

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• My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

  

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• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

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• Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

  

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• One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.

  

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• What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
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  • Wall

• Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.

  

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• Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Teaching
  • Perform