Dalai Lama Quotes
The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears
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There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.
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We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.
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The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
