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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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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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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'To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.' (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: 'That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being.'
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Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
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Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
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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.
