Gautama Buddha Quotes
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.
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When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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Then Nature shaped a poet's heart - a lyreFrom out whose chords the lightest breeze that blowsDrew trembling music.
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Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
