Gautama Buddha Quotes

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

Gautama Buddha

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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

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• 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

• American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

  

  John Russell
  • Peace

• We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Worry
  • Poverty

• I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Small

• We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Focus
  • Calm
  • Meditation

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Worry
  • Calm
  • Desires