Gautama Buddha Quotes

By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

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• I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Detroit

• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I'd rather die than fade away

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Die
  • Dies
  • Fades

• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

  

  Questlove
  • Work

• Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heaven
  • Mercy
  • Missionary

• We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Time

• A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Able
  • Familiar
  • Companion Mind

• Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blessed
  • Littles
  • Speech

• On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Solitude

• He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Child
  • Grow
  • Represent

• I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Regret
  • Failed

• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Stick
  • Come Out
  • Good Idea

• A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Night
  • Sunshine

• Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

  

  Willi Munzenberg
  • Mean
  • Struggle
  • Revolutionary

• What counts is the cultural level.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Level
  • Counts
  • Cultural

• I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Jobs
  • Wanted
  • Made

• If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Heart
  • Energy
  • Poverty

• Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Food
  • Weight
  • Racing

• By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Efforts
  • Joyfully