Quotes About Karma

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn

The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life … have been my mother — for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.

Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.

But that was her karma, always involved with the wrong man. Some were rich, some were poor, some were handsome, some were homely. But they all had one thing in common—they were wrong for her.

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.

Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.

Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

everything happens because of your karma, which is a kind of subtle energy that you cause by the stuff you do or say or even just think

the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

Si tratas de curar la maldad con maldad, sumarás más dolor a tu destino.

Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.