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  • The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Love Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Moving Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Moving Quotes , Air Quotes
  • And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Desire Quotes
  • Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Grief Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Moving Quotes , Hard Work Quotes