25 Buddhist Quotes & Sayings

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. — Rebecca Solnit

Life is a blessing remeber to stop and take a breath every once in a while or it will pass you by. — Adele Tack

One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that. — Margaret E. Knight

It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so. — Bernadette Roberts

I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis. — Daymond John

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better ... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. — Og Mandino

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals. — Albert Einstein

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. — A.S. Byatt

She had imagined that the presence of of what she thought of as clever people would bring about some subtle change in the usual small talk. The sentences would be like bright jugglers' balls, spinning through the air and being deftly caught and thrown up again. But she saw now that conversation could also be compared to a series of incongruous objects, scrubbing-brushes, dish-cloths, knives, being flung or hurtling rather than spinning, which were sometimes not caught a all but fell to the ground with resounding thuds. — Barbara Pym

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world — Roger Scruton

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years. — Tina Turner

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar. — Taylor Swift

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. — Ricky Martin

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth. — Michael M. Thomas