Afflictive Emotions Quotes

#1. Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

Gautama Buddha

#2. If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

Dalai Lama

#3. Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

Dalai Lama

#4. The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Dalai Lama

#5. Heaven itself possesses nothing that excels a rose of Sharon. What

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. No one borrows money for the sake of the money itself; money is only the medium by which to obtain possession of products.

Frederic Bastiat

#7. Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

Dan Jenkins

#8. It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

#9. Courage is fear that prays.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

W. H. Auden

#11. Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.

Morihei Ueshiba

#12. Buddhist practice is aimed primarily at cultivating the antidotes to these afflictive thoughts and emotions, with the goal of eradicating the root of our unenlightened existence to bring about liberation from suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. You can win this world when you empower yourself with the power of love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Everything changes when you change.

Jim Rohn

#15. When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteor hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteorite.

Justin Sewell

#16. To lose one's mother was to lose the beginning of one's life story.

Lauren DeStefano

#17. I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

Tea Leoni

#18. After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

#20. The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

Jack Dangermond

#21. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.

Jacques Derrida