Dalai Lama Quotes
In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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What matters most is the win.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.
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Out here, it's just you and the ball.
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I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.
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I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
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In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.
