It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
