Gautama Buddha Quotes

I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

Gautama Buddha

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• The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

  

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

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• I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

  

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• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  

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• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

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• The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

  

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• What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

  

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• We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

  

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• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  

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• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

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• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  

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• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  

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• Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

  

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• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  

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• It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

  

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• Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

  

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• The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

  

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• I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.

  

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• We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

  

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• This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

  

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• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

  

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• I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Reflection
  • Train
  • Purify