Gautama Buddha Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
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A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
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It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in a trenchcoat, and then BAM. They sneak out with all your furniture
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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There were about a thousand things I liked better than this part, in which we talked about women like they were just things. I tried to imagine what it would be like if gay were normal and all of us were gay. Would we objectify men in the same way?
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.
