East Quote by Gautama Buddha

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

— Boyd K. Packer

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an…

— Tara Brach

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad…

— Marjane Satrapi

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

“Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Evolution is cyclical. You also have to understand the West and East are only directions, not absolute…

— Ajay Chaturvedi

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault.…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

— Rajneesh