““Though the reality of having a boyfriend gave Leona some validity as a woman in the sense it endorsed her ability to sustain a long term romantic relationship; the horrors and distasteful intricacies she had to endure as a result were increasingly painful and in the longer term resulted in diminishing returns with regards to the effort she'd invested and left her devoid of emotional satisfaction.””
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
