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Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Henepola Gunaratana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality:
Birth: December 7, 1927

Topics

Step Mind Control Impossible Learn

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.

Joe Lonsdale

I Am Appreciate I Have Learned See

I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

Jessie James Decker

School High School Restaurant Year

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

John McLaughlin

Affection Profound Zen Ways Buddhism

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

Robert Pinsky

I Am People Play Admire Way Trade

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.

Jeff Moss

Money People World Trying You Away

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Michael Birch

You Say Always May Valley Been

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Steve Martin

Light Moment Day Me Writing Think

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

Hollywood Whole Just Like Thing

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Ronnie Corbett

Depression People Moving Burden How

Think until it hurts.

Roy Thomson

Think Hurts Until

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Mike Joyce

Direction Someone You Play Right

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

Michael Schumacher

Community Heart Red Me You Will