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.
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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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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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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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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.
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We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.
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We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
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Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.
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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.
