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American actor and producer, Birth: 31-8-1949 Richard Gere Quotes
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The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.
Richard Gere

The verity is, we can alter. We can modify ourselves. We can transform our thoughts. We can adjust our emotions. And thus the cosmos shifts.
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As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
Richard Gere

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I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.
Richard Gere

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Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.
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I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.
Richard Gere

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In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
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Everyone responds to kindness.
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There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
Richard Gere

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I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
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The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.
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People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.
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I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.
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I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
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Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
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I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
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You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.
Richard Gere

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I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
Richard Gere

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In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see (the terrorists) as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
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If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].
Richard Gere

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I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.
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I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.
Richard Gere

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I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
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When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
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To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
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What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
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26.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
Richard Gere

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The secret of my success is my hairspray.
Richard Gere

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When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
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All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
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The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
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If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
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There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
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When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.
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I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.
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My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
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I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
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Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
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I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.
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Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
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I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.
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The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.
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I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
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Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.
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Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.
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I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.
Richard Gere

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I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
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I cry every chance I get.
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The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
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Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
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We've had too many World AIDS Days.
Richard Gere