quotes about Metta

last updated: November 28, 2023

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.
-- Tim Ward

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books

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“The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
“If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.”
“If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.”
“Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.”
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
“It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.”
“The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon--there are more Muhammads than anything else.”
“Foley looks like an un-made bed.”
“By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.”
“Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.”