Top 27 Harrer Heinrich 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.
Heinrich Harrer
#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.
Heinrich Harrer
#3. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Heinrich Harrer
#4. Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
Tori Amos
#5. 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.
Heinrich Harrer
#7. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On
Heinrich Harrer
#8. 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
Heinrich Harrer
#9. Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.
Catherine Bell
#10. The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Salman Rushdie
#11. 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
Heinrich Harrer
#12. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
#14. They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.
Heinrich Harrer
#16. It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.
Alan Arkin
#17. 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
Heinrich Harrer
#18. If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
#19. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?
Jason Collins
#20. Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
Washington Irving
#21. There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.
Heinrich Harrer
#22. Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
Tom Robbins
#24. 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.
Heinrich Harrer
#25. It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.
Heinrich Harrer
#26. He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".
J.G. Ballard
#27. On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.
Heinrich Harrer
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