"Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field."

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Source : B. Alan Wallace, Steven Wilhelm (2016). “Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

B. Alan Wallace

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“It's really important to me that the actors bring a lot of elements of the characters to the process so they own it, so it's personal to them, so it's not just me saying, "You stand here, you say this, you do this, you feel this." No, you bring it up from in here and then let's work with that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.”
“I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?”
“I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.”

Source : "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.21, BookBaby
“If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.”

Source : "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.
“Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.”
“I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.”

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