Heinrich Harrer Quotes

#1. There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

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#2. One of the best characteristics of the Tibetan people is their complete tolerance of other creeds. Their monastic theocracy has never sought the conversion of infidels.

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#3. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction

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#4. I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

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#5. All our dreams begin in youth.

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#6. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On

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#7. Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at me through his telescope. On

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#8. But we had no intention of becoming shopkeepers or merely earning money. We needed work that would at the same time procure us satisfaction. And more than anything, we desired to make ourselves useful

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#9. They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.

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#10. What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand monasteries, temples, and shrines, 99 percent were either looted or totally destroyed. In

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#11. There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

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#12. We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

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#13. It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.

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#14. On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.

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