Dalai Lama Quotes
If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.
Quotes to Explore
-
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
-
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
-
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
-
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
-
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
-
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
-
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
-
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
-
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
-
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
-
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
-
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
-
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
-
I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
-
There is no truly global justice.
-
Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.
-
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
-
He's scattered, his sentences trail off, he sighs frequently, as though he's so intelligent he's always frustrated by the formulaic nature of speech (each sentence a ride you can't get off once the attendant buckles you into the car).
-
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
-
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
-
If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.
