"The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Teaching Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.”

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“Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.”
“Friends are connected by their souls, you can't just rinse something out that has been deeply instilled into your sou”
“Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.”
“I try not to look for messages in films.”
“Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.”
“IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,”
“As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.”

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