Tibetan Proverbs (99 Proverbs)
- An elephant has enormous dung -- don't try to defecate like an elephant. Don't try to wipe someone else's ass if yours is unwiped.
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- If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. If I act on my dream, perhaps you will remember it, but if I involve you, it becomes your dream too.
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- Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel passion.
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- When drinking water, think about the source.
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- As a thing is viewed, so it appears.
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- If it is here, it is everywhere. If it is not here, it is nowhere.
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- Rebellious thoughts are like an abandoned house overtaken by robbers.
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- When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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- At the bottom of patience is Heaven.
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- If the inner mind is not deluded, the outer actions will not be wrong.
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- Sow good and you'll reap good; sow bad and you'll reap bad. You don't have to cut down a tree to get its fruit.
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- Who can say for sure that one will live to see tomorrow.
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- Better once to see than many times to hear.
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- If you don't know where you are, any road will do.
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- The essence of the spirit is space, there is nothing it holds to in the end.
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- With a resolute heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. Spreading the news is also multiplying it.
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- Better than the young man's knowledge is the old man's experience.
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- If your inner mind isn't deceived, your outer actions won't be wrong.
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- The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.
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- Without a woman's help, a man cannot set up a tent.
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- Cling not to experiences for ever-changing are they.
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- Imagination cures the chaos in the heart.
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- The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity will not attain great prosperity.
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- Without an ax no tree can be cut down.
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- Credulity breeds credulity and ends in hypocrisy.
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- It is easier to put leather on the soles of one's feet than cover the world with leather.
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- The thousand brilliant accomplishments of the past cannot serve today's purpose.
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- Cure the illness that is not yet an illness.
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- It is easy to see the fly on the other person's nose, while ignoring the horse on your own.
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- The wise man's wealth lies in good deeds that follow ever after him.
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- Daughters are no better than crows.
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- Knowing just one word of wisdom is like knowing a hundred ordinary words.
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- The wise pursue understanding; fools follow the reports of others.
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- Don't notice the tiny flea in the other person's hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose.
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- Landing a single punch on your enemies nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders.
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- The wise understand; fools follow the reports of others.
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- Don't trust a hungry man to watch your rice.
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- Learn to stand up where one falls.
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- There are no incurable diseases but only incurable people.
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- Each lama has his own teaching.
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- Learn what you want and leave or others.
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- Those who have saved one life, have saved the entire world.
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- Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore.
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- Lies are short-lived.
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- To a tendai monk, everything is wonderful.
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- A child without education, is like a bird without wings.
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- For so must it be, and help me do my part.
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- Medicine that heals is not always sweet and caring words are not always pleasant.
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- To change the the world we must first change ourselves.
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- A hundred male and a hundred female qualities make a perfect human being.
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- Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws.
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- No Lama knows where the ber-chhen will hurt him until he puts it on.
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- Traveling is a return to the essentials.
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- All the world's Great Journeys begin with the first step.
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- If I know I will die tomorrow, I can still learn something tonight.
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- Our best masters are those who make us suffer the most.
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- Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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- Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow?
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- Men will always lose the battle against cholera and bureaucracy.
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- When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire.
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- Master and servant -- both have the same body odor.
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- Water in the mouth before eating; water in the eyes when the bill comes.
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- It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs.
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- To spread the news is to multiply it.
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- It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
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- To set fire to the wood, you need the help of the wind.
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- If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days.
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- The young magpie that pulls feathers out of his mother thinks that he is showing gratitude in that way.
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- If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.
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- The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others.
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- If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it.
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- The unfortunate would be bitten by toothless dogs.
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- He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.
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- The rubbish we speak is like froth on the water, actions are drops of gold.
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- He who has had enough to eat thinks of serving God; the hungry think of stealing.
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- The person who gets stuck on petty happiness will not attain great happiness.
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- Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.
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- The moon grows darker as it gets nearer to the sun.
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- Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried.
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- The father may well be a horse, but it's most likely that the son will be a mule.
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