Tulku Rinpoche Quotes

#1. True confidence comes from realizing the view.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

#2. Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

#3. The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

Publilius Syrus

#4. The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN ...

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#6. I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

Dwayne Johnson

#7. Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

Tab Hunter

#8. When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

#9. Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ...
It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#10. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#11. A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

Roni Horn

#12. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#13. Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

#14. There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

#15. I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#17. Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

Katy Butler

#18. Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others ...

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#19. When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#20. Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

Mason Cooley

#21. You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

Sam Altman

#22. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche