Gautama Buddha Quotes

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Gautama Buddha

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Today
  • Human
  • Relationships

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Like
  • Glitter

• 'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'

  

  Connie Willis

• God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• I was glad I liked chemistry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Chemistry

• I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Up
  • She
  • Hair

• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Crazy
  • Laughter
  • Laughing

• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Words
  • Meditation
  • Shell

• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Respect
  • President

• I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Players
  • Rewards
  • Defeats

• Sticking to it is the genius.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Genius
  • Sticking

• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Possession

• Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Man
  • Need
  • Possession

• Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

  

  Will Herberg
  • Struggle
  • Modern
  • Historical

• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Possession
  • Foolish
  • Guards