Three Poisons Quotes

#1. There exist three poisons in life: desire, anger, and ignorance. One poison is the root of the other two. To attain enlightenment, you must swallow the root of your poisons, so that you die. You die many times to attain the enlightenment of Buddha.

H.S. Kim

#2. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

Shinjo Ito

#3. From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

Brenda Shoshanna

#4. Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Graham Kendrick

#5. All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.

Neal Stephenson

#6. We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Pliny The Elder

#7. But I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Tom Hayden

#9. Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Steve Jobs

#10. Self-loathing is man's effort to sweep the moon of footprints.

Joseph Grammer

#11. Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

Samuel Johnson

#12. An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

Charles M. Blow

#13. We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while.

Noble Smith

#14. What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Berenice Abbott

#15. PSA2.8 Ask of me,

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