Dalai Lama Quotes

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Man
  • Health
  • Sickness

• I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • Just
  • Going

• I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Feel
  • Looking
  • France

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Forever

• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • History
  • Rock
  • Patience

• Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Courage

• It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Challenge
  • Challenges
  • Compassion