Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bodhidharma

To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

Amish Tripathi

It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own

Gary Zukav

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Chris Pine

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

Felix Adler

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Jessie J

I guess karma comes back around 'cause now I'm the one that's hurting

George Saunders

I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there's not a cost to the choice, one way or the other; whether you get it or don't get it, there's a cost. That's just basic responsibility, to admit that there's a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.

Gracie Gold

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Jane Addams

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Desiderius Erasmus

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

Dean Koontz

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Brendon Urie

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!

Lord Alfred Tennyson

For man is man and master of his fate.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Chuck Palahniuk

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Chuck Knox

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Christopher Paolini

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

Christopher Paolini

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Angelina Jolie

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Amos Oz

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.