Dalai Lama Quotes
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I play as I feel.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
