"To seek solitude like a wild animal...." - Quote by Dalai Lama
To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.
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“Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.”
“To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.”
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
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“Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.”
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
“Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.”
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“What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!”
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.”