Dalai Lama Quotes
The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Quotes to Explore
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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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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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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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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Those who go along get along.
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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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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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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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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
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Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.
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Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing.
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
