"If we develop concern for other people's..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“Who has magnificent self-confidenceAnd fears nothing that exists?The man who has attained to truthAnd lives free of error.”

“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.”

“We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.”

“We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.”

“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”

“It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.”

“What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.”

“And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?”

“By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.”