Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me… — 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
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