Top 20 Unsatisfactoriness Quotes

#1. the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness

Mark Epstein

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#2. The more I see of the 'hounoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

Karen Swallow Prior

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#3. With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

Robert Farrar Capon

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#4. Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.

Dalai Lama XIV

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#5. the more I see of the 'honoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within."20 Now the truth of this was even more apparent.

Karen Swallow Prior

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#6. I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Doreen Cronin

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#7. Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Stanley Kunitz

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#8. The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.

Bill Maher

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#9. All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

Ram Dass

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#10. We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

Maureen Dowd

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#11. Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

Ellen Muth

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#12. The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
Star, to serve as a guiding point.

Edward Abbey

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#13. Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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#14. I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Bell Hooks

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#15. Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Roger Ebert

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#16. I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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#17. Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.

Michael Crichton

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#18. I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

David Friedman

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#19. One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

George R R Martin

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#20. Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

John Adams

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