Dalai Lama Quotes

“If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.”

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”

“The only way to fail is to quit.”

“I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.”

“Chinese people themselves, they really want change.”

“...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”

“Silence is sometimes the best answer”

“We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.”

“Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.”

“If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings”

“I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.”

“All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.”

“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.”

“When you lose, don't lose the lesson.”

“The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.”

“Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.”

“World peace must develop from inner peace.”

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

“Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.”

“A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility”

“You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.”

“We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.”

“Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.”

“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”

“Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today”