Anagarika Dharmapala quotes

“Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.”
-- Anagarika Dharmapala

Source : Anagarika Dharmapala (1965). “Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala”

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“I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...”

“You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.”

“The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

“I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

“At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.”

Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan

“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”

“The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.”

“When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.”

“Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.”