
Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.
– Shunryu Suzuki
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- To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. – Shunryu Suzuki
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- Nothing in this world is -˜by chance’. There are -œcovered causes- (hidden) within. -˜By chance’ is also the result of an effort. – Dada Bhagwan
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- Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. – Virginia Woolf
- I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on. – Fidel Castro
- Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us. – Luigina Sgarro
- Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort – Manoj Arora
- Success is not usually the result of pure chance or fluke. Mind you, neither is a failure the result of bad luck. – Stephen Richards
- If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort. – Kamal Ravikant
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- The first time can always lead to a second chance. But, the second choice can never be the result of the first change. – Vishwanath S J
- I’ve never been the most important person to anybody – not even myself. – Ranata Suzuki
- I’ve never been the most important thing to anybody – not even myself. – Ranata Suzuki
- Momma always said when Randy got an idea in his head it was more likely to come attached to a foot in his ass than a check in the bank. – Joe Schwartz
- Jealousy is not a result of love. It is a result of crossed relationship boundaries. Love and relationships should not be confused. – Julieanne OConnor
- manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result. – Pieter Swaenepoel
- If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation. – Aparna Pathak
- Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics. – MR Shabanali
- The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth – Sunday Adelaja
- While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort. – Regina R Carver
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort – Kim Holden
- Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders – Fela Durotoye
- ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). – Idries Shah
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. – Alan W Watts
- In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. – John Mark Green
- Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort. – Domonique Bertolucci
- Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty. – William Temple
- The best way to appreciate God is to appreciate His creation – Sunday Adelaja
- If you appreciate, you will appreciate. – Bernard Kelvin Clive
- Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine – SR Crawford