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Ifs Quotes by Dalai Lama

216 Ifs quotes by Dalai Lama

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Dalai Lama frames “if” as a gateway to kindness and mindfulness. In a generous set of 216 reflections, he gently nudges readers toward empathy, suggesting that each conditional thought can be a chance to cultivate calm and goodwill. The voice is serene and uplifting.

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If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

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If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

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If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

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If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

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Smile if you want a smile from another face.

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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

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If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

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If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

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Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not…

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If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.

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If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one…

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If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

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The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

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If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

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In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very…

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If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?

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This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime.…

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Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense…

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If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then…

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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it…

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If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness,…

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If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might…

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The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know…

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If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As…

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Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the…

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Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed…

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We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the…

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If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able…

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Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a…

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I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes…

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Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of…

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If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make,…

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If you want change, create the causes.

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If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

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Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

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If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

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If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.

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If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

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Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health.…

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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he…

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I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

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