Sila Buddhism Quotes

#1. If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

Uday Kotak

#2. Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Thomas Campbell

#3. The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

Rudolph Fisher

#4. You know the difference between a brownnoser and a shithead, right, Isa?" Isadora frowned. "Depth perception.

Elisabeth Naughton

#5. What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

Maribel C. Pagan

#7. One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

William Butler Yeats

#8. With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.

Helen Keller

#9. Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. Instead of trying to understand who we really are, we reach for the "Real Thing". And when the goods we buy fail to match up to those deep desires, instead of giving up on material goods, we just keep banging our heads against the wall and buying more.

James Wallman

#11. A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

Saadi

#12. The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

Claudia Rankine

#13. There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Mark Twain

#14. You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Irina Bors