Xiv's Quotes

#1. If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

Katie McGrath

#2. I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. His tears and his spontaneous laughter are teachings within the teaching, reminding us of the incarnate dimension of wisdom.

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#5. Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared.

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#6. Because we all share
an identical need for love,
it is possible to feel that
anybody we meet,
in whatever circumstances,
is a brother or sister.

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment.

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#8. The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves.

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#9. I do not think about converting others to Buddhism or merely furthering the Buddhist cause. Instead, I try to think of how I as a Buddhist can contribute to the happiness of all living beings.

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#10. You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.

Joe Klein

#11. Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. Prana is the aspect of mobility, dynamism, and cohesion, while consciousness is the aspect of cognition and the capacity for reflective thinking. So according to the Guhyasamaja tantra, when a world system comes into being, we are witnessing the play of this energy and consciousness reality.

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#14. A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

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#15. The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

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#16. Happiness is a combination of inner peace, economic viability, and above all, world peace.

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#17. True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

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#18. Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare.

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#19. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction

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#20. On every level - as individuals, and as members of a family, a community, a nation, and a planet - the most mischievous troublemakers we face are anger and egoism.

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#21. In my view, the combination of the first-person method with the third-person method offers the promise of a real advance in the scientific study of consciousness.

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#22. Rather, genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have an innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself. And, just like myself, they have the natural right to fulfill this fundamental aspiration.

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#23. My meetings with many different sorts of people the world over have, however, helped me realize that there are other faiths, and other cultures, no less capable than mine of enabling individuals to lead constructive and satisfying lives.

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#24. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.

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#25. Let distractions melt away like clouds disappearing in the sky. - MILAREPA

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#26. But for all its benefits in offering moral guidance and meaning in life, in today's secular world religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics.

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#27. In Tibet there were practitioners in retreat who so strongly reflected on impermanence that they would not wash their dishes after supper. - PALTRUL RINPOCHE'S SACRED WORD

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#28. No monarch placed more emphasis on the veneration of the king's body than...Louis XIV.

Jennifer Homans

#29. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Dalai Lama XIV

#30. The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.

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#31. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

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#32. We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

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#33. Given that a significant percentage of children suffer from attention deficit problems in today's world, especially in more materially affluent societies, I am told that substantial efforts are being made to understand the faculty of attention and its causal dynamics.

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#34. Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.

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#35. CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S. WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND

Charles Dickens

#36. Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect. Not

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#37. The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

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#38. Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

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#39. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

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#40. But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.

E.H. Gombrich

#41. For example, if a person once had money but has none now, it's no use going shopping. Similarly, although we may have accumulated virtuous karma previously, it cannot benefit us if we have no virtuous karma in the present.

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#42. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

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#43. Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.

Charles Hazlewood

#44. There are various positive side effects of enhancing one's feeling of compassion. One of them is that the greater the force of your compassion, the greater your resilience in confronting hardships and your ability to transform them into more positive conditions.

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#45. Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is equal to one's own.

Dalai Lama XIV

#46. I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

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#47. Someone else's action should not determine your response.

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#48. Positive and negative actions are determined by one's own motivation. If the motivation is good, all actions become positive; if the motivation is wrong, all actions become negative.

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#49. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

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#50. If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

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#51. There's a Tibetan saying: 'Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.'" There

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#52. Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

#53. The time one has to live is like the sun peeping through clouds,

Dalai Lama XIV

#54. Lha Gyal Lo! (Victory to the gods)

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#55. Buddhism has long had a theory of what in neuroscience is called the plasticity of the brain.

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#56. All problems, including terrorism, can be overcome through education, particularly by introducing concern for all others at the preschool level.

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#57. Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

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#58. Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion.

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#59. Even if I have to do it alone, I will free all sentient beings from suffering and the causes of suffering, and set all sentient beings in happiness and its causes.

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#60. Live a life that transcends your own!

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#61. Great is repentance, because for the sake of one that truly repenteth the whole world is pardoned; as it is written (Hosea xiv. 4), 'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him.'" It is not said, "from them," but "from him.

Various

#62. We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV

#63. Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.

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#65. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

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#66. The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop's hand, and then they were more eight than eighty, laughing and making jokes together as they strolled toward the terminal, yellow umbrella sheltering above them. Even

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#67. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine

Charles Dickens

#68. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#69. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

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#70. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.

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#71. Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present that we have reached the limits of what is tolerable.

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#72. Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actionns

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#73. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

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#74. If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

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#75. To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel.

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#76. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

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#77. By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world.

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#78. The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

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#79. The specific areas of science that I have explored most over the years are subatomic physics, cosmology, and biology, including neuroscience and psychology.

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#80. According to my experience, the principal characteristic of genuine happiness is peace: inner peace.

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#81. What is more, I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being. I

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#82. There is more to human existence and to reality itself than current science can ever give us access to.

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#83. [Through practice] we can get to the point where some disturbance may occur but the negative effects on our mind remain on the surface, like the waves that may ripple on the surface of an ocean but don't have much effect deep down.

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#84. THE BASIC SOURCES OF HAPPINESS ARE a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these, even if we're surrounded by hostility, we'll feel little disturbance.

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#85. People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering.

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#86. Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI.

Charles Dickens

#87. Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.

Dalai Lama XIV

#88. I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.

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#89. In both the global community and the family, human beings need harmony and cooperation, which comes through mutual respect. Altruism is the most crucial factor.

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#90. War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.

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#91. When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

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#92. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.

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#93. Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#94. Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

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#95. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

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#96. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

#97. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

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#98. Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Louis XIV Of France

#99. In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself.

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#100. The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.

Pope Benedict XIV