"It is lack of love for ourselves..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.
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“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
“Smile if you want a smile from another face.”
“If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.”
More on Self Love
“I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.”
“Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.”
“This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.”
More on Compassion
“A simple smile. That's the start ofopening your heart and beingcompassionate to others.”
“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”