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Nun Inspirational Quotes (405)

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Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.
Tenzin Palmo
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I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.
Tenzin Palmo
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There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.
Tenzin Palmo
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No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.
Catherine McAuley
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In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.
Tenzin Palmo
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The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
Catherine McAuley
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I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
Tenzin Palmo
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Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.
Clare of Assisi
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What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.
Tenzin Palmo
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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Marie de France
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Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.
Tenzin Palmo
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To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.
Ayya Khema
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The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
Wendy Beckett
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Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.
Tenzin Palmo
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.
Gemma Galgani
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When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.
Tenzin Palmo
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How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.
Tenzin Palmo
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Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.
Clare of Assisi
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Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.
Mother Angelica
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Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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