I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.
Dalai LamaThe most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.
Dalai LamaBecause the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Dalai LamaOn occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
Dalai LamaIt is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.
Dalai Lama