Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Karen Armstrong

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

K. D. Lang

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

Paul Theroux

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Patrick Duffy

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

Patrick Duffy

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

You can see from a case like this how the Medicaid system can have a substantial impact on county budgets.

You can only spend what you have, and that's the way we're going to try to develop a budget.

Matthieu Ricard

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Matthieu Ricard

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Matthieu Ricard

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Matthieu Ricard

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

Nancy Pelosi

The federal budget should be a statement of our national values. Sadly, the Republican budget fails that test.

Joshua Bolten

The federal budget picture is ... is steadily declining out over the next five years ... toward the President's goal of cutting the deficit in half, ... I feel confident that we will remain on that path as long as we have continued good economic growth.

Kent Conrad

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.

The consumer is in a budget mind-set; it's become ingrained.

The consumer confidence report will be closely watched to see if higher energy prices are hurting household budgets.

The cost of unrest could be enormously detrimental to the budding economic recovery.

I'm not questioning the viability of the project ... we should be designing and building for the grant money we received ... and work hard to stay within those budgets.

John Smith

I'm going to be in shock for a long time. I'm already looking forward to talking about this for years to come. I can't wait to see all my buddies at home.

Chris Hillman

We had to guess each year what interest rates would do in the coming year, which is difficult to do in today's markets, and budget for that,

Sherwood Boehlert

There is simply not enough money in NASA's budget to carry out all the tasks it's undertaking on the current schedule.

This way, there will be some transition, and new principals will have input on budgets and what's going on at the schools next year, and the schools will get a chance to get to know them.

This was the first time that the January budget has been in deficit since 1992.

They lit incense in accordance with Buddhist practice.

There's the 'official' budget, there's the 'rumored' budget, and then there are the various deals struck with exhibitors and the talent, ... There's a lot of mystery there.

Jenny Offill

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Chris Edwards

Roth IRA funds come from after-tax money, ... The change wouldn't cause a budget loss in the short-term, which would please those concerned about the deficit.

Marilyn Ferguson

Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.