Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
Dalai LamaWe need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness
Dalai LamaI request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.
Dalai LamaMost of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
Dalai LamaRight from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?
Dalai Lama