"Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them."

-- Dalai Lama

#Gratitude Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.”
“So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.”

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“It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool”
“I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.”

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“She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.”
“Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.”
“It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.”

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