Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Quotes
Whatever comes together must fall apart, whatever was born must die. Continual change, relentless change, is constant in our world.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
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Whatever comes together must fall apart, whatever was born must die. Continual change, relentless change, is constant in our world.
