Dalai Lama Quotes

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

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• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Great
  • God
  • Love

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Great
  • Think
  • Today

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Style

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
  • Great
  • Love
  • Reading

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Facebook

• I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Great
  • Know
  • Me

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Stop
  • Alone

• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Faults
  • Hated
  • Farewell

• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Imagination
  • Soars
  • Stern

• I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

  

  Carl Pohlad
  • Baseball
  • Nervous
  • Hitting

• Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Courage

• Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

  

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