Aukana Trust - Publications is the practical application of the Buddha's teachings to everyday life.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Religious You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religious
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Religious Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Religious
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Religious You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Religious
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Religious "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Religious
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Religious "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Religious
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Religious "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Religious
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Religious The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Religious
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Religious Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Religious
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Religious "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Religious
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Religious "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Religious
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Religious The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Religious
