Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Mary Daly

I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

Pico Iyer

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

Shunryu Suzuki

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Pema Chodron

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Pema Chodron

Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

Pankaj Mishra

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

James Altucher

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

Matt Bonner

He wouldn't be able to find my size in a skirt. At least I'd be able to find his size.

Helen Fisher

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Lamar Alexander

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Eric Bana

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

Nancy McGee

The cyst was the size of a tennis ball.

Paul Ryan

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.