"When we are motivated by compassion and..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.”

“The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.”

“My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.”

“A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.”

“His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.”

“If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.”

“Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving”