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

• The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

  

  William Whewell
  • Generations
  • Concern
  • Possession

• The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.

  

  William Cobbett
  • People
  • Smart
  • Concern

• They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Concern

• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Concern
  • Concern For Others