![[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-ive-made-every-concession-to-china-an.jpg)
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thinking people suffering
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Bertrand Russell
thinking power technique
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
thinking giving important
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.
thinking mathematical absolutes
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
thinking understanding firsts
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
thinking punishment belief
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
thinking differences laughing
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Robert Fulghum
thinking knows ifs
You won't learn if you think you already know everything. Robert Kiyosaki
thinking use emotion
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions
longer political situation
The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable, Edmund Stoiber
longer minutes normal sort takes wear
I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things. Brittany Snow
longest
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth. Bikram Choudhury
long understanding victory
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. C. S. Lewis
long enough term
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. Cecelia Ahern
long tree savannah
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? Carl Sagan
long life-is hopefully
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring. Bethenny Frankel
long surfing competing
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old. Bethany Hamilton
long-ago years ideas
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract. Benoit Mandelbrot
point-of-view
Examine other points of view as if they were your own. Deepak Chopra
point-of-view
Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about. Oliver Stone
point-of-view diverse
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much. William Golding