If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share — 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
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. — 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
