"We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength."

-- Dalai Lama

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“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”
“People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.”
“Maybe tone it down with the explosions”
“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
“I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.”
“As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.”
“Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.”
“Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?”

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