Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

David Schwimmer

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

Beyonce Knowles

What goes around comes back around.

Carl Jung

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Bill Maher

If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.

Bjorn Lomborg

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

Cheech Marin

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

Eckhart Tolle

Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Nermine Othman

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Scottish Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

William Shakespeare

Faults that are rich are fair.

William Shakespeare

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.