Dalai Lama Quotes
Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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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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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should get at this level of my career. And I always know the ugly ones are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.
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I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
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'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
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A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
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Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
