Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Brand

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Sara Bareilles

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.

Richard Gere

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Vera Farmiga

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.

Milarepa

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

Milarepa

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Milarepa

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Milarepa

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Milarepa

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Travie McCoy

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

William Jennings Bryan

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

William Hung

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Vincent Van Gogh

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Titus Maccius Plautus

He whom the gods favor dies in youth.

William Nicholson

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

Virginia Woolf

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

Samuel Beckett

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Roberto Benigni

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Zygmunt Bauman

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

Virginia Kennedy

In fact, I think the diesel is more expensive right now.

Bill Clinton

I'll be with you until the last dog dies

Jason McCoy

I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.