Uvanta Quotes & Sayings

Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?'
Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism. — Dalai Lama XIV

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry? — Dalai Lama

I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us. — Layla Hagen

Journalism is in fact history on the run. — Thomas Griffith

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day. — Elon Musk

A good lawyer serves you from the cradle to the grave — Saira Viola

I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example
rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second. — Diane Ackerman

On the eve of the shadow crescent ...
Watch the Vampire burn. — Melissa De La Cruz