Akong Rinpoche Quotes

Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.

Akong Rinpoche

• Life
• Kind
• Caring

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science
  • Powerful

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Embarrassed
  • Apologetic

• Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Head
  • Lion
  • Mouse

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • You
  • Appreciate

• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Best
  • Color

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Commitment

• There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Women
  • You
  • Intuition

• I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Romantic
  • Young
  • Married

• You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.

  

  Art Malik
  • World
  • Different
  • Society

• After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who's impacted my life - this is our gold medal.' So when someone asks to try it on, I'm like, 'Sure, why not?' I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Why

• The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I trained for four years in Toronto, and even before that, I was back and forth between Canada and the States during summer for training. And, since there isn't much difference between Canada and the States, I haven't felt much difference in the environment.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Environment
  • Training
  • Summer

• Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.

  

  Akong Rinpoche
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Caring