Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice, meditation is better than mere knowledge, renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation, peace immediately follows the renunciation of (the attachment to) the fruit of work.

Tatiana Maslany

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Tara Brach

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Atharva Veda

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.

Terry Belanger

I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books,

Rob Halford

I'd like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.

Zhuangzi

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

William Bartram

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Hazlitt

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Raven Goodwin

'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.

Freddy Fender

He follows me very well, and sometimes I have to follow him, ... It just comes out good. The guy's good, you know. He's been around. And I've been around a long time, too.

Erich Fromm

Infantile love follows the principle: ""I love because I am loved."" Mature love follows the principle: ""I am loved because I love."" Immature love says: ""I love you because I need you."" Mature love says: ""I need you because I love you.

Gary Oldman

The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty.

Adi Godrej

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Author unknown

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Michael Chertoff

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.

Walter Isaacson

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It's low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

French Proverb

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

Nick Cave

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Dave Richards

We made miniature snowmen. Instead of carrots, we used Fruit Loops. Some kids were sorry they couldn't take it with them.

Robin Wright

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

Robin Gibb

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard P. Feynman

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

Trudi Canavan

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

Virchand Gandhi

According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.

Woodrow Wilson

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Woody Allen

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Russell Brand

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Richard Davidson

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

William Martin

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Uma Thurman

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Walter Bagehot

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Wayne Dyer

Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you

Roseanne Barr

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

Roseanne Barr

Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

Oscar Wilde

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Oliver Goldsmith

I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house.

Ronald Steele

Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would have to tell my story about him.

Mark Tuohey

This is merely a stake in the ground. There will be no arbitration. We'll have this resolved before then. We're moving very vigorously on several fronts to finalize this matter.

Jim Tracy

It's better than nice. Better than nice. That says a lot. The mere suggestion of it says a lot.

Susan Danly

They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn't merely a record of something, it has an implication.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Russell Baker

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Peter Gardner

I think it's going to be used a lot now. We just have to work out some of the kinks, some of the logistical stuff.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

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