Dalai Lama Quotes

If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Now is the time when your action is practice.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

We all have the potential to be better than we are.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything.

Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.