Dalai Lama Quotes
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
Quotes to Explore
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already
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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
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Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
