Gyatso Tenzin Quotes & Sayings

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H.L. Mencken

...The words Dalai Lama mean different things to different people, that for me they refer only to the office I hold. Actually, Dalai is a Mongolian word meaning 'ocean' and Lama is a Tibetan term corresponding to the Indian word guru, which denotes a teacher. From Freedom in Exile, the Autobiography of the Dalai Lama — Tenzin Gyatso

My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts. — Chuck Palahniuk

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water. — Nancy Reagan

This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage the use of personal defence weapons. Once public possession of one type of weapon is condoned for personal defence, the situation of weapon possession for protection starts to spiral upwards towards more powerful and dangerous weapons. — Anne McLellan

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement — Robert D. Putnam

Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams. — Carolyn Edwards

According to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, when you're happy everything in life is bearable and grief and stress are just passing emotions. Happiness is not something that you feel after something good happens. It is a state of living that is present whether good things are happening or not, whether you're suffering or not. — J. Thomas

Tell them that they can trust their hearts and awareness to awaken in the midst of all circumstances. — Dalai Lama XIV Tenzin Gyatso

I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and share that where I can in certain areas of the mainstream media that doesn't get the surfing attention. — Kelly Slater

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. — Dirk Benedict

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon. — Thomas Merton

It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me. — Alan Redpath

That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52) — Devoney Looser