On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction