Dalai Lama Quotes
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Quotes to Explore
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
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The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
