Quotes About Bhutan

#1. If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in one word, civility.

Linda Leaming

#2. World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

Narendra Modi

#3. The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.

John Green

#4. Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

Narendra Modi

#5. Bhutan was the first nation to establish a permanent fund to finance the long-term protection of its native and rare flora and fauna.

Eric Dinerstein

#6. We stop when we reach the top, climb out, shivering in the cold and ghostly mist under wind-blasted trees, to read the sign erected by the Public Works Department: "You have reached Trumseng La, Bhutan's highest road pass. Check Your Brakes. Bash On Regardless. Thank you."

Jamie Zeppa

#7. By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

Kai Bird

#8. Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

Narendra Modi

#9. (It's a good thing the gho is so handy, because all Bhutanese men are required to wear one during business hours. Bhutan is the only country in the world with a dress code for men.)

Eric Weiner

#10. It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.

David Michie

#11. The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Derek Bok

#12. Bhutan is a beautiful place. High-end tourists love it.

Kai Bird

#13. Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

Christian Louboutin

#14. You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.

Rush Limbaugh

#15. This is my favorite part of the day. "Good morning, Class Two C," I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, "Good morning, miss!" Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.

Jamie Zeppa

#16. Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

#17. The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#18. Wherever we are, we are as one

Cassandra Clare

#19. I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

Jamie Zeppa

#20. I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

Patrick Grant

#21. If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

Gautama Buddha

#22. Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe: ... Drowning?
Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

Erin Hunter

#23. I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

Paula Cole

#24. I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Carl Barks