Excellent people are honored wherever they go.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Excellence
Master and servant—both have the same body odor.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: The Body
It is no use trying to tug the glacier backwards.
—Tibetan Proverb
Cold hearts can find warm words.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Heart
One good punch on your enemy’s nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Advice, Enemies, Meaning
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Goodness
Abandon the crowd of distractions and confusions, and rest in the boundless state without grasping or disturbance; firm in two practices: visualization and complete, at this time of meditation, one-pointed, free from activity. Fall not into the power of confused emotions.
—Tibetan Proverb
Luck that lasts is always suspect.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Luck
He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Only a certain amount of flowers and jewels are beautiful.
—Tibetan Proverb
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.
—Tibetan Proverb
Topics: Stupidity
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