Dalai Lama Quotes

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

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• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Enjoy

• Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Ever

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Age
  • Lazy
  • Three

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Open
  • Well
  • Desperation

• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Society
  • Focus

• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Forget

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• I'm still very much Kate.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Very
  • Still
  • Kate

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • Without
  • Group
  • Fools

• I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Car

• I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

  

  Mark Batterson
  • People
  • Long
  • Growth

• Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Writing

• Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

  

  John Bevere
  • Future
  • Forget

• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Important
  • Feeling