Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jillian Schurle

The Buddha was definitely with us tonight. Luck certainly didn't hurt in what we were trying to accomplish. We sensed that things were changing when Jenna got No. 3.

Zen Proverb

There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know what he is, really

Robert M. Pirsig

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Bodhidharma

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Leo Buscaglia

You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

Sharon Salzberg

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

Pico Iyer

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Shekhar Kapur

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

Japanese Proverb

Not to know is to be a Buddha

Frank Haith

As you can see, it didn't help because he still got 30 points. He finds ways. He is smart. It is like anything you do, it will work for a short period of time.

Beyonce Knowles

They do get on but I'm a daddy's girl and that's what he finds so hard to let go of

Todd Jaeger

They think because of their youth that if the state finds out they'll become a ward of the state.

David Baker

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

Van Turner

This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to be able to recognize important finds or have the people who can do it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

Jeremy Fishbein

People can question what they want, but Jeff finds a way to score goals regardless of who he is playing. Whoever gets him will be really happy. He always finds a way to succeed. He didn't start out getting things handed to him, but he sure found his way.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Proverb Proverb

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Buddha

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.