Etiquette Quotes - Page 8

• Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Honesty, Buddhism

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• As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfection

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• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Block, Buddhism

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• Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed for espionage. Nevertheless, you veer away from perfect in matters of etiquette. Do not let these marks go to your head; there are many girls at this school who are better than you. Our biggest concern is what you get up to when we are not watching. Because, if nothing else, this test has told us you are probably spying on us, as well as everyone around you.

  Gail Carriger

  Girl, School, Perfect

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• Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

  Lynne Truss

  Drawing, Roots, Attention

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2003.

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• Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Jobs, Buddhism

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• You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake, School, Language

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Hands

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• Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhist, Pain

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• Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

  Emily Post

  Two, People, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

  Judith Martin

  Silly, Ideas, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Play, Important

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• The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

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• That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hate, Buddhism

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• Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

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• Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it go, personally, and just move on and forget. Be in the moment. Don't even notice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Buddhism

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• Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Buddhism

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