Gautama Buddha Quotes

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

Gautama Buddha

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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
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• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
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• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Drink

• People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Women
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• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
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• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Career
  • Rock
  • Model

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Women
  • Amazing

• Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • True
  • Movie

• Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Sense

• The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
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• The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
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• I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Up
  • She
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• That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life
  • Death
  • Desk

• The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact. Boorish people are blessed with athletic or musical skills that qualify them to earn more money in a year than many of us will earn in our lifetime. Saintly people are struck down by disease before they can use their gifts to help others. The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God’s inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don’t get what they deserve.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Find

• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Freedom

• Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Joy