Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure. — 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
Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation. — 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
