Quotes

The Paradox of our Age:

We have bigger houses, but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more information to produce
more copies then ever, but we have less communication;
We have become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of fast food but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
steep profits but shallow relationships.
It's a time when there is much in window, but nothing in the room.
-Dalai Lama

"And I'll be telling you why you white people are not happy. We Indian people, we look a the people more poor, more low, more hard than us and we be thanking God we are not them. So we are happy. But you white people, you are looking at the peoples above you all the times and you are thinking 'why aren't I be them? why am I not having that moneys and things? And so you are unhappy all the time.'"
-Old Indian man