We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor. — 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
