Ajahn Chah Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Trying Quotes

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

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After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

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I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

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With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

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Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

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I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

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The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

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Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

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In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

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I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

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Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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