Ajahn Chah Quotes, Giving Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

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I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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