Milarepa Quotes

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

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• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Lost
  • Effort

• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Lost
  • Everyone

• Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • You
  • Face

• I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Character
  • Play
  • Look

• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Knowledge
  • Distance
  • Luck

• We Conservatives...are realists. We know that the British are one of the most creative and gifted peoples on earth. But we also know that the British are individualists, who do not respond to state direction and control. We like leadership-yes. But, above all, we like freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Control

• It was a nice change of pace to come to work, put on a nice suit and stay clean all day.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Work
  • Nice

• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

  

  Jacques Santer
  • Help

• I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • People
  • Great
  • Reality

• I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

  

  Joel Osteen

• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance
  • Choose

• I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Fall

• I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Brother
  • Judge
  • Judging

• All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

  

  Milarepa
  • Attitude
  • Compassion
  • Meditation