Dalai Lama Quotes

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

• Giving
• Feeling
• Friend
• Practice
• Compassion

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• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

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• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

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• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

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• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

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• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

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• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

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• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

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  • World
  • Girl
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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

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  • Up
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• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

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  • People
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• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  

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• The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

  

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  • Technology
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• I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  

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• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

  

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• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

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• Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

  

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  

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• The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

  

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  • Experience
  • Giving

• Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

  

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  • Feeling
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• The worst is feeling worthless.

  

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  • Feeling
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• I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Friend