![It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-was-entirely-due-to-my-mother-a-devout-buddhist-and-her-kindness-and-perseve.jpg)
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We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.
mother religious childhood
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion. Anton LaVey
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I did the same as my mother would have done me in a situation like that.
mother power talking taught
He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice. Linda Lavin
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A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it. Robert Cormier
mother liars oasis
All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been. Rob Thurman
mother sunday church
My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to. Rob Corddry
perseverance determination past
Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future. Robert E. Lee
perseverance determination adversity
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!'' Richard DeVos
perseverance failure adversity
Paralyze resistance with persistence. Woody Hayes
perseverance passing-away unusual
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! William James
perseverance struggle loss
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. Morgan Freeman
perseverance taken men
My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love. Kevyn Aucoin
perseverance sweet powerful
Only those who keep walking get sweet returns... look at the sun's perseverance- dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving. Narendra Modi
perseverance adventure technology
Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.
perseverance gratitude adversity
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known. Napoleon Hill
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Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. Russell Brand
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I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is. Sara Bareilles
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My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. Richard Gere
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I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them. Vera Farmiga
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During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep. Mike Love
buddhist california southern
It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. Lamar Alexander
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Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. Norodom Sihanouk
buddhist collecting should
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. Eric Ripert
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The new facility will be closer to the aesthetics of a typical Buddhist Temple.