In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai LamaMy message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
Dalai LamaIn twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
Dalai LamaOf course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
Dalai Lama