Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Quotes

#1. How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#2. She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#3. She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#4. It is not easy to speak of people and land in simple terms beginnings with a beginning and ending with an end.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#5. They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#6. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#7. Time unravels what happens within time.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#8. A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to a moment of contentment. This too is part of our struggle as Tibetans: to remind our children and ourselves that we are Tibetan.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa