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  • In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Country Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes
  • The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Patriotic Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Hands Quotes , Taoism Quotes
  • Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pride Quotes , Hands Quotes