Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duncan Sheik

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

Dalai Lama

If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.

Dalai Lama

If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

Dalai Lama

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

Dalai Lama

War is out of date, obsolete.

Dalai Lama

To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Dalai Lama

Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Dalai Lama

When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.

Dalai Lama

Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jane Hirshfield

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

Jane Hirshfield

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Allan Gurganus

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Annie Besant

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Robert Lanza

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

Robert Lanza

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Thomas Carlyle

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Sri Chinmoy

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

Rollo May

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.