5/02/2009

Famous Dalai Lama Quotes

"I decided that my being should be dedicated to something useful for others. One of my favourite prayers says "So long as space remains.. So long as sentient beings suffer and remain.. I will remain in order to serve". This gives me a lot of comfort. This is the meaning of my life."
Dalai Lama

"I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect."
Dalai Lama

"When I meet people in different parts of the world, I am always reminded that we are all basically alike: we are all human beings. Maybe we have different clothes, our skin is of a different colour, or we speak different languages. That is on the surface. But basically, we are the same human beings."
Dalai Lama

"The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others."
Dalai Lama

"When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighbouring communities, and so on."
Dalai Lama

"If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others."
Dalai Lama

"I am a simple Buddhist monk.. no more, no less."
Dalai Lama

"When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness."
Dalai Lama

"When I die that's permanent retirement."
Dalai Lama

Famous Albert Einstein Quotes

"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."
Albert Einstein

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
Albert Einstein

"The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer."
Albert Einstein

"Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
Albert Einstein

"The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living."
Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein

"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self."
Albert Einstein

"One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Albert Einstein

Oscar Wilde Quotes # 1

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless."
Oscar Wilde

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
Oscar Wilde

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
Oscar Wilde

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
Oscar Wilde

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."
Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
Oscar Wilde

"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
Oscar Wilde

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
Oscar Wilde

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde

Anthony Robbins Quotes # 1

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
Anthony Robbins

"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant."
Anthony Robbins

"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."
Anthony Robbins

"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
Anthony Robbins

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
Anthony Robbins

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
Anthony Robbins

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
Anthony Robbins

"Repetition is the mother of all skill."
Anthony Robbins

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
Anthony Robbins