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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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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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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For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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Don't read my diary when I'm gone.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.
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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
