199+ Enchanting The Dalai Lama Quotes That Will Make Your Life Blossom with Love and Peace
Last updated on February 27th, 2024 at 03:27 pm
His Holiness The Dalai Lama emphasizes on the importance of universal responsibility, love, compassion and kindness in his teachings and public appearances, striving to promote interfaith harmony and understanding among people of different religions. His influence extends far beyond his role as a spiritual leader, making him an extraordinary role model and advocate for positive change worldwide.
Through his uplifting motivational quotes, he has sparked a flame of love and kindness in the hearts of countless souls, illuminating the path to a life brimming with happiness and inner peace.
The Dalai Lama Quotes on Leading a Content and Happy Life
As individuals, we can influence our own families. Our families can influence our communities and our communities can influence our nations. – Dalai Lama
If at the beginning and end of our lives we depend upon the kindness of others, why in the middle of our lives should we not act kindly toward them? It is the pragmatic choice. – Dalai Lama
If there is no solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. – Dalai Lama
Live so when your children think of fairness and integrity they think of you. – Dalai Lama
Through violence, you may ‘solve’ one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. – Dalai Lama
We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily. – Dalai Lama
We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more. – Dalai Lama
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai Lama
World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. – Dalai Lama
A happy mind is a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is good for the body. – Dalai Lama
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy! – Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. – Dalai Lama
Acceptance, it must be pointed out, is the opposite of resignation and defeat. – Dalai Lama
All of our actions have consequences, and these inevitably have an impact on both ourselves and others. – Dalai Lama
An eye for an eye… we are all blind. – Dalai Lama
And I think some suffering, maybe even intense suffering, is a necessary ingredient for life, certainly for developing compassion and that in doing so we may reduce. – Dalai Lama
As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being. – Dalai Lama
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is, therefore, part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier than we found it. – Dalai Lama
Be honest, truthful, and altruistic. If you concern yourself with taking care of others, there’ll be no room for lies, bullying, and cheating. If you’re truthful you can live transparently, which will enable you to establish trust, the basis for making friends. – Dalai Lama
Because motivation pervades all action, it is important that we have a positive motivation. Whatever we are involved in, whether it’s politics, education, medicine, law, engineering, science, business or industry, the nature of our motivation determines the character of our work. – Dalai Lama
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future. – Dalai Lama
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity. – Dalai Lama
Change is part of the world. Until the last moment, anything is possible. – Dalai Lama
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you are always showing a bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship? – Dalai Lama
Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. – Dalai Lama
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. – Dalai Lama
Friendship depends on trust, not money, not power, not mere education or knowledge. Only if there is trust will there be friendship. – Dalai Lama
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. – Dalai Lama
Gratitude is the recognition of all that holds us in the web of life and all that has made it possible to have the life that we have and the moment that we are experiencing. Thanksgiving is a natural response to life and may be the only way to savor it. – Dalai Lama
Help others, and if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. – Dalai Lama
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. – Dalai Lama
I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime. – Dalai Lama
I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends. – Dalai Lama
I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life. – Dalai Lama
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence. – Dalai Lama
I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it. – Dalai Lama
Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. – Dalai Lama
If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg. – Dalai Lama
If something can be done about the situation, what need is there for dejection? And if nothing can be done about it, what use is there for being dejected? – Dalai Lama
If we are sincere in taking care of others, if we protect their lives and respect their rights, we’ll be able to conduct our lives transparently and that is the basis of trust, which in turn is the basis of friendship. – Dalai Lama
If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives. – Dalai Lama
In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same time, many others are struggling to get by in the face of inequality, corruption, and injustice. – Dalai Lama
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 Lama
In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. – Dalai Lama
Instead of looking to blame others and the world around us, we should first look within ourselves. – Dalai Lama
It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one’s own behaviour. – Dalai Lama
It is only natural that difficulties arise if we must fight day by day in order to survive while another human being, equal to us, is effortlessly living a luxurious life. This is an unhealthy situation; as a result, even the wealthy — the billionaires and millionaires — remain in constant anxiety. – Dalai Lama
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. – Dalai Lama
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. – Dalai Lama
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. – Dalai Lama
Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.. – Dalai Lama
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation. – Dalai Lama
Logically, harmony must come from the heart. Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear Fear and trust cannot go together. – Dalai Lama
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open. – Dalai Lama
Many of our problems stem from attitudes like putting ourselves first at all costs. – Dalai Lama
Marriages, even the best ones—perhaps especially the best ones—are an ongoing process of spoken and unspoken forgiveness. – Dalai Lama
Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells — of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender. – Dalai Lama
No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up. – Dalai Lama
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. – Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day. – Dalai Lama
Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama
Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values. – Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in life is to help others. If you can’t help them, at least do not hurt them. – Dalai Lama
People should never sit alone for too long when they’re crying. – Dalai Lama
Put first things first, which is humanity. – Dalai Lama
Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life. – Dalai Lama
Silence is sometimes the best answer. – Dalai Lama
So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed – all the outward manifestations of neglect of our inner values – will persist. – Dalai Lama
So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we’ve banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern. – Dalai Lama
So then I set my intention for the day: that this day should be meaningful. Meaningful means, if possible, serve and help others. If not possible, then at least not to harm others. That’s a meaningful day. – Dalai Lama
Sometimes things go wrong, that’s normal, but we have a saying in Tibetan, ‘Nine times fail, nine times try again.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. – Dalai Lama
The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world. – Dalai Lama
The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. – Dalai Lama
The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. – Dalai Lama
The most important quality to have toward your day is gratitude for what you have experienced, even for what was hard and what allowed you to learn and grow. – Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
The theory of emptiness… is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are. – Dalai Lama
The time of greatest gain in wisdom and inner strength is often the time of greatest difficulty. – Dalai Lama
The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one’s existence, to have a good heart. – Dalai Lama
There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive? – Dalai Lama
This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook. – Dalai Lama
This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth. – Dalai Lama
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well. – Dalai Lama
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. – Dalai Lama
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. – Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. – Dalai Lama
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. – Dalai Lama
We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us. – Dalai Lama
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. – Dalai Lama
When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings. – Dalai Lama
With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. – Dalai Lama
You are made for perfection, but you are not yet perfect. You are a masterpiece in the making. – Dalai Lama
You must understand that even if your adversaries seem to be harming you, in the end their destrucive activity will turn against them. – Dalai Lama
His Holiness The Dalai Lama Sayings on Happiness and Peace
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. – Dalai Lama
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction. – Dalai Lama
As for suffering I do not wish even the slightest; as for happiness I am never satisfied. In this, there is no difference between others and me. Bless me so I may take joy in others’ happiness. – Dalai Lama
At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment. – Dalai Lama
Be happy to change your goals, but never change your values. – Dalai Lama
Certain desires are positive: a desire for happiness; for peace; for a more harmonious and friendlier world. – Dalai Lama
Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
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Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. – Dalai Lama
Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation. – Dalai Lama
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy. – Dalai Lama
Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don’t regard others as strangers. – Dalai Lama
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice. – Dalai Lama
From the moment of birth, every human being wants to discover happiness and avoid suffering. – Dalai Lama
Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. – Dalai Lama
Happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events. – Dalai Lama
Happiness is the highest form of health. – Dalai Lama
Happy people build their inner world, unhappy people blame their outer world. – Dalai Lama
However, if we can transform our attitude towards suffering, adopt an attitude that allows us greater tolerance of it, then this can do much to help counteract feelings of mental unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and discontent. – Dalai Lama
Human happiness and human satisfaction most ultimately come from within oneself. – Dalai Lama
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs, or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks. – Dalai Lama
I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness. – Dalai Lama
I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. – Dalai Lama
I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier. – Dalai Lama
If you make others happy, you’ll be happy. If you make others unhappy, you’ll be miserable. – Dalai Lama
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. – Dalai Lama
In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness. – Dalai Lama
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace. – Dalai Lama
Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions. – Dalai Lama
It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. – Dalai Lama
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. – Dalai Lama
Joy is in fact our birthright and even more fundamental than happiness. – Dalai Lama
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. – Dalai Lama
Material development only gives us sensory pleasure, but to be lastingly happy we need to develop our minds. We need calm minds. – Dalai Lama
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness. – Dalai Lama
No matter how educated or wealthy you are, if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy. – Dalai Lama
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace. – Dalai Lama
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. – Dalai Lama
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – Dalai Lama
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. – Dalai Lama
Taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life. – Dalai Lama
The consequences of karma are definite: Negative actions always bring about suffering, and positive actions always bring happiness. If you do good, you will have happiness; if you do bad, you yourself suffer. – Dalai Lama
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one’s family, to one’s neighborhood, to one’s community and so on. – Dalai Lama
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. – Dalai Lama
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. – Dalai Lama
The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness. – Dalai Lama
The source of a happy life is within us. Troublemakers in many parts of the world are often quite well-educated, so it is not just education that we need. What we need is to pay attention to inner values. – Dalai Lama
The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. – Dalai Lama
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart. – Dalai Lama
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness. – Dalai Lama
Too much self-centered thinking is the source of suffering. A compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness. – Dalai Lama
Virtually all of us have benefited from our mother’s affection at the start of our lives. When someone is on their deathbed if he or she is surrounded by loved ones they can pass away peacefully. From birth to death we all need affection. – Dalai Lama
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives if you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. – Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate – right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness. – Dalai Lama
We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness. – Dalai Lama
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities. – Dalai Lama
When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. – Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. – Dalai Lama
Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is equal to one’s own. – Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama’s Quotes on Love, Kindness, and Compassion
A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. – Dalai Lama
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. – Dalai Lama
An open heart is an open mind. – Dalai Lama
Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion. – Dalai Lama
We are all born free of religion, but none of us are born free of the need for compassion. – Dalai Lama
A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others. – Dalai Lama
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. – Dalai Lama
Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in our daily life. – Dalai Lama
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion, and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. – Dalai Lama
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. – Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Dalai Lama
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. – Dalai Lama
Compassion is the radicalism of our time. – Dalai Lama
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content. – Dalai Lama
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. – Dalai Lama
Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let’s take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion. – Dalai Lama
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. – Dalai Lama
Having a smart brain is not enough, we also need a warm heart. – Dalai Lama
He said, There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. – Dalai Lama
I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others. – Dalai Lama
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. – Dalai Lama
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. – Dalai Lama
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion. – Dalai Lama
If with a warm heart and patience we can consider the views of others, and exchange ideas in calm discussion, we will find points of agreement. – Dalai Lama
If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right. – Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. – Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not. – Dalai Lama
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony. – Dalai Lama
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used. – Dalai Lama
Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion. – Dalai Lama
Real change in the world will only come from a change of heart. – Dalai Lama
Real compassion is based on reason. Ordinary compassion or love is limited by desire or attachment. – Dalai Lama
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. – Dalai Lama
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. – Dalai Lama
The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion. – Dalai Lama
The more you are motivated by love. The more fearless & free your action will be. – Dalai Lama
The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be. – Dalai Lama
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. – Dalai Lama
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. – Dalai Lama
There’s a Tibetan saying: ‘Wherever you have friends that’s your country, and wherever you receive love, that’s your home’. – Dalai Lama
Unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm. – Dalai Lama
When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion. – Dalai Lama
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone. – Dalai Lama
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. – Dalai Lama
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