Dalai Lama Quotes
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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There is no truly global justice.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
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I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.
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Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.
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True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
