"Only through the development of mutual respect,..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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“When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.”
“If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
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“He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.”
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“From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.”
“Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")”
“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”