Heinrich Harrer Quotes

#1. The young always think they're invincible, right until the moment they learn otherwise. Usually, the hard way

Melissa Grey

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

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

David Gelernter

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

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#7. I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

Gaspard Ulliel

#8. 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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#9. The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

Mary Decker

#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. All our dreams begin in youth.

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

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#19. I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Crumb

#20. 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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