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.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
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• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • Oppose

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
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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.

  

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

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
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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.

  

  W. H. Davies
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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.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • 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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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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.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
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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.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
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  • Fingers

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

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• 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.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• Political development should start at the grassroots.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Political
  • Start
  • Grassroots

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

  

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

  

  KaDee Strickland
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  • Opportunity
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• My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Always
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• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • People
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Lies

• Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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