Family Quote by Isabella Bird

“Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have an easy…

— Heinrich Harrer

“Religion wasn't a big deal in our house. I don't think it was a big deal in most Chinese households. We always had photos…

— Eddie Huang

“What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand…

— Heinrich Harrer

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and…

— Heinrich Harrer

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

— Dalai Lama

“Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it…

— Joyce G Baldwin

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life,…

— Tenzin Palmo

[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner…

— Elie Wiesel

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have…

— Swami Vivekananda

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being…

— Horace Bushnell

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

— Elie Wiesel