Goenka Vipassana Quotes & Sayings

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. — S. N. Goenka

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful. — S. N. Goenka

I have a feeling this is more dangerous than hoeing potatoes in the hot sun. — Cheryl Landmark

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage ... They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world. — Herbert Hoover

I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found. — Albert Einstein

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal. — S. N. Goenka

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have. — John Sculley

Nothing says "I'm sexy" like appearing as if you've just blown the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. — Dana Marie Bell

Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. — Jean-Baptiste Say

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things. — Henry Samueli

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. — Joseph Hume

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping. — S. N. Goenka

Something about the house seemed vaguely Germanic, or perhaps it just looked like something that belonged in a fairy tale - the residence of a witch, or a more-than-usually genteel ogre. Pimm rapped on the door with the head of his cane. After a few moments, a dolorous voice on the other side said, "Well? — T. Aaron Payton

A Teddy Bear is for life - not just for Christmas — Lorraine Hitchings

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one ... — Stephen King