"Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities."

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mean Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.”
“What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.”
“Mick McCarthy will have to replace Cascarino because he's quickly running out of legs.”
“It is for all men that come into the world once to die; and after death the judgment! And since death is a debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.”

Source : Colonel Richard Rumbold's last speech at the Market-Cross of Edinburgh, tei.it.ox.ac.uk. June 26, 1685.
“The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.”
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
“I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.”
“In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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