Gotama Buddha Quotes & Sayings

With my adventurous, can-do attitude, I walked into a world where crap is an everyday event. — Cindy Keiger

Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values, ideas, and practices that nurture my ability to create a path in life, to define myself as a person, to act, to take risks, to image things differently, to make art. The more I prize Gotama's teachings free from the matrix of Indian religious thought in which they are entrenched and the more I come to understand how his own life unfolded in the context of his times, the more I discern a template for living that I can apply at this time in this increasingly secular and globalized world. — Stephen Batchelor

My best training came from my father. — Woodrow Wilson

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment. — Tim Roth

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine? ...
It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine? ...
I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor? — Fred Rogers

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace — Hermann Hesse

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me. — Lindsay Lohan

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose. — Bruce Lee

Human desires are the main cause of suffering — Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

I can't wait for the human race to be over and they give out the trophies. — Malcolm Watts

Thomas, I can pull down you're pants and point you downwind, but even with the Lord's help I can't pee for you. — Bernard Cornwell

The tensions between Gotama and the Buddha and between the dharma and Buddhism may have started during Gotama's lifetime. The discourses themselves provide ample examples of how Gotama was transformed from a human being into a quasi-deity, and the dharma was transformed from a practical ethics into a metaphysical doctrine. The texts that make up the early canon cannot, therefore, be regarded as sharing an equivalent antiquity, but need to be understood as products of the doctrinal and literary evolution of a tradition that took place over at least three centuries. — Stephen Batchelor

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey