Dalai Lama Quotes
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
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My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
