Digha Nikaya Quotes

#1. I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn't.

Natalie Standiford

#2. Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

Saadi

#3. He knew that men learned how to love; they weren't born with that capacity. He knew the qualities of a godd man included all the aspects that concerned Marco: loyalty, fidelity, ambition, and gentleness.

Adriana Trigiani

#4. My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

Chrisette Michele

#5. There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Usama Fayyad

#6. The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Bruce Pandolfini

#7. You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name mentioned. I don't like it, his being Nurse Temple's son. That's a bad coincidence. Get a read on him. If he has the power, we may not be able to wait to deal with him.

Michael Grant

#8. The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#9. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#10. Renunciation means death of false ego.

Radhanath Swami

#11. I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

Emil Artin

#12. I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

Rob Roberge

#13. The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It's what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.

Anthony Doerr

#14. We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

John Eldredge

#15. I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

Ella Eyre