To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically. — 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
If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry? — 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
If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile… — 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
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious… — 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
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our… — 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
