Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility… — 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
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You canÂ’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one… — 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
