Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence.

Dalai Lama

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Dalai Lama

Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

Dalai Lama

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

Dalai Lama

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

Dalai Lama

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

Dalai Lama

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Dalai Lama

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Dalai Lama

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

Dalai Lama

Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

Dalai Lama

Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

Dalai Lama

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

Dalai Lama

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

Dalai Lama

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

Dalai Lama

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Dalai Lama

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

Dalai Lama

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

Dalai Lama

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

Dalai Lama

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Dalai Lama

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Dalai Lama

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

Dalai Lama

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

Dalai Lama

We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking.

Dalai Lama

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

Dolley Madison

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

Doc Watson

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

Doc Hastings

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

Doc Severinsen

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

Doc Rivers

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

Doc Rivers

I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good,

Doc Rivers

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

Dolph Lundgren

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Dolph Lundgren

I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.