Dalai Lama Quotes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
