"The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy."
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"Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave."
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
"I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation."
"The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment."
"To-morrow will give some food for thought."
"The aim of justice is to give everyone his due."
"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due."
"Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom."
"The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work."
"I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance."
"Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world."
"Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
"We give advice, we do not inspire conduct."
"The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers."
"Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns."
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
"Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example."
"What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving."
"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others."