Gautama Buddha Quotes

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • God
  • Never
  • Child

• I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Stories
  • Loved
  • Kid

• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • House
  • Idea

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Life
  • Cynical

• I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Strong
  • Adapt
  • Surroundings

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Giving

• There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time

• The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Desire

• Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Time
  • Work
  • Christian

• It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Loving
  • Got
  • Rocking

• What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Children
  • Tree
  • Pity

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Good
  • Father
  • Fear

• Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Worry
  • Calm
  • Desires