Quotes About Dhammapada

#1. They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Amy Hempel

#2. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Max Muller

#3. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.

Gautama Buddha

#4. What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows.

Charles Darwin

#5. I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.

Robert J. Dolan

#6. The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Anonymous

#7. Your employees are your company's real competitive advantage. They're the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Richard Branson

#8. Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. - THE DHAMMAPADA

Dennis Merritt Jones

#9. Look at your body - A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. - The Dhammapada

Thomas Ligotti

#10. Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Hank Green

#11. I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean a thing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Toni Morrison

#12. You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.

Katty Kay

#14. I shall live here in the rains,
There in winter,
Elsewhere in summer, muses the fool,
Not aware of the nearness of death.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)

Ananda Maitreya

#16. When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

James Brown

#17. I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

#18. Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

Leon Brown

#19. There are those that do not realize that one day we all must die. But those that do settle their quarrels.

Dhammapada

#20. While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.

As you would pluck an autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.

Dhammapada

#21. Let a man overcome anger by love.

Gautama Buddha

#22. I just ask that everyone continue to raise awareness and fight for pediatric cancer. The fight's not over.

Devon Still

#23. The press has made up so much ... God ... awful, horrifying stories ... it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

Michael Jackson

#24. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Gautama Buddha

#25. You're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Marco Rubio

#26. Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

Gautama Buddha