Dalai Lama Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Practice Quotes

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

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Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

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A mind that practices love cannot love.

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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

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When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

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All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

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