Dalai Lama Quotes
The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.
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I've been singing since I could talk correctly.
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I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.
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The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.
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But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.
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The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.
