Gautama Buddha Quotes

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

Gautama Buddha

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Freedom
  • Imagination
  • Create

• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Differently

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Solution

• With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lost
  • Growth
  • Tax

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dog

• I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Mind
  • Worry
  • Finding

• Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Speak

• I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happiness
  • Feelings
  • Despair

• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  

  Gavin Extence
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Tragedy

• Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Speak
  • Pure Mind