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
We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner… — 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
