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A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

— Tom Stoppard There Will Always be a Tree (2010)

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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.

Travesties (1974)

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966)

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

Travesties (1974)

It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Arcadia (1993)

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The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace (1988)

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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