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Tolerance Quotes by Dalai Lama

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Dalai Lama explains that tolerance grows through real‑life challenges. He says love, compassion, patience, and forgiveness are the core of all religions, but we learn true patience only when dealing with difficult people. He adds that education is the best way to spread compassion and tolerance.

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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

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Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

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It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

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My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

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It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

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We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

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The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love…

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Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which…

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Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

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Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance,…

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Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be…

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It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a…

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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of…

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An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one…

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We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in…

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All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But…

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The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or…

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I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested…

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If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true…

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For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice…

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We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop…

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In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering…

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Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence…

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The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes…

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Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a…

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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

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The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

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Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with…

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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our…

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Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give…

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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that…

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Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a…

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For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So…

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All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But…

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We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we…

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