Dalai Lama Quotes
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.
Quotes to Explore
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.
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I hate crap, I like craftsmanship.
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.
