Buddhist Practice in Belgium - Addresses of associations and temples where you will get a first acquaintance and the possibility to practice buddhism. With texts and quotations. Not a full English version.
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Buddhism Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Buddhism
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Buddhism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Buddhism
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Buddhism If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Buddhism
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Buddhism Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Buddhism
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buddhism Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Buddhism
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Buddhism Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Buddhism
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Buddhism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Buddhism
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buddhism Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Buddhism
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Buddhism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Buddhism
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Buddhism Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Buddhism
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Buddhism "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Buddhism
