Dalai Lama Quotes
I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
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When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
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Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
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I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
