Dalai Lama Quotes
If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?
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Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
