Dalai Lama Quotes
If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
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It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!
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With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
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Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
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If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
