"A learned person will become noble only..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
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“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.”
“Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.”
“Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?”
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“Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.”
“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.”
“You don't know what you can get away with until you try.”
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“However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.”
“When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.”
“The book you don't read won't help.”