A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Nearly every great advance in science arises from a crises in the old theory, through an endeavor to find a way out of the difficulties created. We must examine old ideas, old theories, although they belong to the past, for this is the only way to understand the importance of the new ones and the extent of their validity.
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
I always consider myself as a simple Buddhist monk. I feel that is the real me. I feel that the Dalai Lama as a temporal ruler is a man-made institution. As long as the people accept the Dalai Lama, they will accept me. But being a monk is something which belongs to me. No one can change that.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it
Make every thought, word and deed such that the impact gives someone courage and zeal and enthusiasm.
A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small
people talk about wine.
If you feel like crying, cry for it is a beautiful way of expressing yourSelf
True peace can be experienced only when we stop giving and taking sorrow. In order not to give sorrow we need a clear heart that has no ill feelings and for not taking sorrow we need a big heart that can tolerate and help other souls to get over their weaknesses.
Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
