Gautama Buddha Quotes
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
Quotes to Explore
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I don't know anything about music.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I do create songs and play the guitar. But my focus is definitely on acting. I think, if there's going to be singing involved in my career, it would probably be in musical theater.
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India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
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I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.
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When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
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Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
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You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
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I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
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I shake all the time. It's exhausting and causes chronic pain in my joints and muscles. It is also the only life I have ever known. I use yoga, dance, nutrition, and breathing to help manage my symptoms.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.
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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
