Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.
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When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
