Dalai Lama Quotes
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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We live for books.
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If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
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Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
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It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.
