Gautama Buddha Quotes

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Gautama Buddha

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• Drink
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• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Will
  • Trees
  • Little Things

• We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Work

• The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Real
  • Destiny
  • Role

• What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Community
  • Neighborhoods

• Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Character
  • Person
  • Illusion

• There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Live
  • Community

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fault
  • Fearsome
  • Labrador

• A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Free
  • Acting
  • Affairs

• Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

  

  George Whitefield
  • Faith
  • Fight
  • Mercies

• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Black
  • Secret
  • Charity

• Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Compete
  • Unconditional Love

• To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Virtue
  • Drink
  • Good Luck