Dalai Lama Quotes

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Pretty
  • Hell
  • Divided

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• He's an explosive player and he made plays. He's slippery. That's why he's the best receiver in the league.

  

  Charles Tillman
  • Player
  • League
  • Receiver

• Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.

  

  Cathy Davidson
  • Sometimes

• I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because of fibromyalgia. Because once you experience real pain you recognize the vibration, the feeling of being healthy, happy and loved. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. I need to do things that feed my soul, like being with people I love, or playing my guitar, or listening to music.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Words

• When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Sing
  • Slaves
  • Cotton

• Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Pain