Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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
Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need… — 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
There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — 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
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'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not… — 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
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
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
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
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share
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
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share
“So let us reflect on what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share
