Gautama Buddha Quotes

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Positive

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Everything
  • Genre
  • Almost

• Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • You
  • Jeans

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Information
  • Office

• Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Taken

• Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate, especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Control
  • Friend

• I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.

  

  Taliesin

• I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Life
  • Country
  • Happy

• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Principles

• But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Today

• Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Pride
  • Rope Ladder

• While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Sake

• Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Refuge
  • Island