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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. -- John Cleese
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. -- Carmen Electra
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. -- Sidney Sheldon
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away. -- Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama's got nothing on me. -- Jimmy McGill
I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times. -- Martin Scorsese
If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth. -- Joe Nichols
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack. -- Jesse Ventura
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested. -- Richard Gere
Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. -- Richard Gere
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child. -- Jack Kornfield
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume. -- Wyndham Lewis
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. -- Daniel Goleman
The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness. -- Joe Nichols
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought. -- Jeremy Piven
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. -- Joanna Lumley
A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. -- Alice Walker
The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. -- Pankaj Mishra
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious. -- Salman Rushdie
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him. -- Desmond Tutu
What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. -- Martin Scorsese
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control. -- Ricky Martin
I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama. -- Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet. -- Dalai Lama
I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis. -- Dalai Lama
The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is. -- Dalai Lama
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. -- Dalai Lama
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being. -- Dalai Lama
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement. -- Dalai Lama
I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic. -- Pico Iyer
I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama. -- Kinky Friedman
I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying. -- Rumer Willis
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood. -- Matthieu Ricard
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim -- Rudyard Kipling
Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama. -- Martin Shaw
One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor. -- Marina Abramovic
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. -- Pico Iyer
I heard about the Dalai Lama, you know and I thought to myself, why not me? -- Zach Braff
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion? -- Richard Davidson
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. -- Ashin Wirathu
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now. -- Pico Iyer
I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama. -- George Meyer
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime. -- Pico Iyer
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on. -- Pico Iyer
When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment. -- Pico Iyer
[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that. -- Pico Iyer
The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic. -- Pico Iyer
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience. -- Pankaj Mishra
I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would. -- Pico Iyer
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong. -- Pico Iyer
Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them. -- Pico Iyer
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life. -- Pico Iyer
I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression. -- Elie Wiesel
Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today. -- Pico Iyer
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.' -- Marina Abramovic
Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair. -- Pico Iyer
When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought. -- Pico Iyer
I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians. -- Pico Iyer
I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility. -- Ian Astbury
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California. -- Pico Iyer
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering. -- Pico Iyer
Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products. -- Laura Sydell
I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind. -- Pico Iyer
On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice. -- Pico Iyer
I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear. -- Elizabeth Kim
With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see." -- Pico Iyer
Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards. -- Pico Iyer
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. -- Pico Iyer
Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Dalai Lama is my personal (and the world's) hero and has been for me since I was 17 and I first learned about him. His openness and acceptance of the world and his focus on others are constant inspirations for me. -- Nick Morgan
The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.' -- Bill Maher
The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the rest of us based on its researches into mind, and we have a lot that we can share with Tibet. -- Pico Iyer
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mereka sungguh tampak bahagia. Seolah tak pernah ada dendam masa lalu. Jantungku berdebar kencang, ya Tuhan, apakah benar yang kulihat? Lama aku merefleksikan apa yang telah terjadi selama ini. Dan kerelaan itu akhirnya muncul saat kulihat wajah mereka bagai ditakdirkan serupa. Itu artinya mereka berjodoh bukan? -- Lea Agustina Citra
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. -- Ram Dass
As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are. -- Pico Iyer
He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state. -- Pico Iyer
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics. -- Pico Iyer
He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world." -- Pico Iyer
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama -- Dalai Lama XIV
The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above. -- Dalai Lama
A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use. -- Dalai Lama
If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work. -- Dalai Lama
Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
George Clooney and Fabio apparently got into a scuffle at a restaurant in Los Angeles over the weekend. George thought the women with Fabio were taking pictures of him. How embarrassed is George Clooney to be in a fight with Fabio? Who is he going to call out next, Lorenzo Lamas? -- Chelsea Handler
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. -- Bill Murray
My memory of 3D movies is Fernando Lamas in a swashbuckling movie. And I suppose it had been the fifties, in which swords came out at you, bullets came out at you, things were thrown into the auditorium, apparently. All that sort of cheap, "Oh, look at us, we've got 3D" isn't in the film. -- Ian Mckellen
In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. -- Charles Spurgeon
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. -- Anne Lamott
I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition. -- Dalai Lama
Sungguh-sungguh, sifat gadis tua, menyanjung-nyanjung kenangan lama. -- Sulastin Sutrisno
Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong? -- Barry Mann
As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself. -- Tenzin Palmo
Premevo la lama come si fa con la maniglia della porta. Sperando di entrare in un'altra vita. -- Elena Mearini
Sukarno adalah seorang satria. Pejuang seperti satria boleh saja tersungkur, tapi dia akan bangkit kembali. Waktunya tidak lama lagi. -- Cindy Adams
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So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama. -- Milton Jones
You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning. -- Tenzin Palmo
kamu yang menjauh cuma mendekatkan aku pada kesepian.aku, selalu disini.di persimpangan jalan ini dan ketika kamu dengannya menemui akhir, kembalilah.aku masih melambaikan tangan dingin inikepada kamu, yang telah lama pergi. -- Oka @landakgaul
Pada akhirnya menulis adalah menolong jiwa penulisnya sendiri dan menemukan apa yang terpendam dalam dirinya... sesuatu yang pernah ada namun telah menghilang karena waktu atau sesuatu yang telah lama ada namun tidak pernah dibangunkan. -- Adam Aksara
Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama! -- Dalai Lama

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