Dalai Lama Quotes
A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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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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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
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Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
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A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
