Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Faith can move mountains.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Never spend your money before you have it.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Show me the money !
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Love is something eternal.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
A woman who is loved always has success.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.