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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
Sad
Anger
Sometimes
Try
Long
Think
Lasts
Ways
Console
Find
Tortured
Some
Beaten
Never
Tibetan
Always
Am
Hear
Been
Personal
Refugees
Stories
Irritation
Who
Deeper
Deeper Level
Level
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama
Today
Together
Sense
Come
Due
Common
Nations
Different
Common Sense
Ethnic
Ethnic Groups
Groups
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai Lama
Religion
You
Important
Awareness
Consequences
Buddhism
Self-Discipline
Call
Another
Whether
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama
Long
Exhausted
Too
Feel
Teach
I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama
Vote
Sometimes
Country
Looking
Politician
Think
Thinking
Bit
Generally
Mainly
Come
Democratic
Democratic Country
Short-Sighted
Little
Little Bit
Next
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
Dalai Lama
Way
Carried
Would
Some
Remained
Had
Occupation
Without
Role
Chinese
Ceremonial
Even
Orthodox
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama
Religion
You
Confusion
Difficulties
Changing
Kind
Easy
Some
Develop
May
Intention
Conversion
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
Anger
Human Being
Think
Something
Generally
Never
He
Wrong
Brain
Human
Being
Then
Speaking
Shows
Right
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
Dayananda Saraswati
Music
Time
Culture
Language
Defined
Melodies
Though
Evolved
Indian
Indian Music
Sophisticated
Because
Same
Transcends
Notes
Unique
A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
Dayananda Saraswati
Valuable
Value
Oneself
The tongue should express what is in the heart.
Dayananda Saraswati
Heart
Should
Express
Tongue
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Dayananda Saraswati
Religion
Heart
Culture
Nation
Nationalism
Nothing
Human Heart
Touch
Empathy
Indoctrination
Because
Demolish
Denied
Human
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
Dayananda Saraswati
Human Being
Musical
Musical Instrument
Given
Voice
Instrument
Greatest
Human
Being
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
Dayananda Saraswati
God
People
Try
Imitate
Know
Him
Repetitions
Should
Use
Works
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
Dayananda Saraswati
Life
Love
Truth
Good
Made
My Life
Own
Duty
Others
Follow
Object
Sake
Falsehood
Persuade
Act
Nay
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Dayananda Saraswati
Natural
Human Being
Care
Otherwise
Harmony
Those
Responding
Out
He
Empathy
Reach
Because
Does
Human
Endowed
Being
Order
Natural Order
Who
Things
Violates
Need
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
Dayananda Saraswati
Justice
Honesty
Wealth
Earned
Opposite
Thing
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
Dayananda Saraswati
God
Great
Before
Other
Sight
Distortion
Photographs
Kinds
Proper
Take
Put
Remembrance
Pictures
Make
His
Them
Persons
Us
Images
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.
Dayananda Saraswati
Music
Difficult
Lyric
Lyrical
India
Touch
Invoke
Without
Person
Helps
Core
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
Socialism
Poverty
Glorious
Rich
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
Politics
Political
Election
President
Else
States
Says
System
One Thing
About
Something
Something Else
He
Takes
Leaves
Brag
Office
Political System
United
United States
Thing
To get rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
Glorious
Rich
Get
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Desmond Tutu
Future
Dreams
Face
Become
Think
See
About
Accomplish
Child
Might
Hate has no place in the house of God.
Desmond Tutu
God
Hate
House
Place
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
Me
South Africa
System
Segregated
Roads
Reminded
Occupied
Housing
Territory
Witnessed
Been
South
Conditions
Africa
Experienced
Apartheid
Much
Palestinian
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond Tutu
You
Peace
Obligation
Society
Ways
Laureate
Nobel
Many
Humankind
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