Akong Rinpoche Quotes

To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.

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• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Alone
  • System

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Light
  • Elite

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • World
  • Important
  • Pain

• I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Reality
  • Ideology

• Music will save the world.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Music
  • Will

• The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islam
  • Structure

• Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• ...'world peace' imposed by a dominant power assisted by a few partners is unlikely... only world peace driven by a recognition of the threat to everyone's survival is the most likely source of salvation...

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Power
  • Peace

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • World
  • Energy
  • Light

• The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Man

• A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for her. By so doing, she can be a powerful influence for good in today's world and meet the challenges of mortality. I have known such women, and they have been a guiding light to me.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fence

• For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Family
  • Character

• Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.

  

  Akong Rinpoche
  • World
  • Improve
  • Tame