Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

The point of life is happiness.

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.