Lifetime Quote by Tenzin Palmo Download Open image “The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.” — Tenzin Palmo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lifetime Merit Things to do
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy any progress… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is not the limit. Beyond the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image