Dalai Lama Quotes

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

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• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Men
  • Night
  • Woman

• It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Work
  • Alive

• I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Attention

• I think I will die laughing.

  

  Jeanne Calment
  • Die

• When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Tongue
  • Test

• People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• I've always wanted to do a family movie.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Actors

• I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

  

  Courtney Love
  • She
  • Rock
  • Star

• I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • Purpose

• People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

  

  Willard Scott
  • People
  • America
  • Study

• If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

  

  Keariene Muizz
  • Giving
  • Painting
  • Hurts

• Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thoughts
  • Interfere
  • Don't Want

• We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

  

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  • Concern For Others