Gotama's Quotes

#1. Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

Stephen Batchelor

#2. To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#3. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

Danny Elfman

#5. If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world.

Benjamin Carson

#7. Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

Hermann Hesse

#8. One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Donald Miller

#9. Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.

Siddhattha Gotama

#10. Human desires are the main cause of suffering

Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

#11. Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.

Amanda Bynes

#12. Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

Geoff Davis

#13. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do.

Glen Duncan

#14. Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

Kevin Mitnick