Ajahn Chah Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Blow Quotes

One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Strong Quotes , Blow Quotes

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Light Quotes

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Blow Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Betrayal Quotes , Blow Quotes

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

The most important need is to have a steady hand at the wheel, one which does not deviate from its purpose depending on which way the wind blows. The task of keeping America safe and secure in an uncertain world falls heavily on the president.

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Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Love Quotes , Blow Quotes

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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