Gautama Buddha Quotes

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

Gautama Buddha

• Hope
• Pain
• Hold On

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• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Tomorrow
  • Fact
  • Yesterday

• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Help

• The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Thoughts
  • Design
  • Chess

• I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Music that is in the charts today is quite dreadful. I find it a great honour that I have never been considered for awards, such as NME etc. It is a personal victory. All awards shows should be banned!

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Great
  • Music
  • Today

• And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Real
  • Black

• What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Present

• I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Long

• When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Joy

• I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Long
  • Breathe

• Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Hold On