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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
— Dalai Lama
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
— Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
— Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
— Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
— Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
— Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
— Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
— Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
— Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
— Dalai Lama
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
— Dalai Lama
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
— Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
— Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
— Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
— Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
— Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
— Dalai Lama
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
— Dalai Lama
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
— Dalai Lama
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
— Dalai Lama
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
— Dalai Lama
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
— Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
— Dalai Lama
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
— Dalai Lama
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
— Dalai Lama
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
— Dalai Lama
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
— Dalai Lama
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
— Dalai Lama
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
— Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
— Dalai Lama
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
— Dalai Lama
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
— Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
— Dalai Lama
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
— Dalai Lama
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
— Dalai Lama
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
— Dalai Lama
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
— Dalai Lama
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
— Dalai Lama
We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
— Dalai Lama
I am just one human being.
— Dalai Lama
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
— Dalai Lama
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
— Dalai Lama
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
— Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
— Dalai Lama
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
— Dalai Lama
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
— Dalai Lama
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
— Dalai Lama
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
— Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
— Dalai Lama
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
— Dalai Lama
Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
— Dalai Lama
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
— Dalai Lama
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
— Dalai Lama
Disagreement is something normal.
— Dalai Lama
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
— Dalai Lama
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
— Dalai Lama
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
— Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
— Dalai Lama
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
— Dalai Lama
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
— Dalai Lama
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