There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion. — Dalai Lama Balance Copy Share Image
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves.… — Dalai Lama Benefits Copy Share Image
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to… — Dalai Lama Because Copy Share Image
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama Children Copy Share Image
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reason to stay — Dalai Lama Wings to fly Copy Share Image
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. — Dalai Lama Environment Copy Share Image
There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions. — Dalai Lama Billions 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 21st century Copy Share Image
The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a… — Dalai Lama Conception Copy Share Image
The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and… — Dalai Lama Clash Copy Share Image
I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier. — Dalai Lama Barriers 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 Better world Copy Share Image
If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating… — Dalai Lama Effects Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Century Copy Share Image
Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business. — Dalai Lama Business 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 Compassionate 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 Believe Copy Share Image
We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think… — Dalai Lama Alive Copy Share Image
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. — Dalai Lama Affectionate Copy Share Image
The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony… — Dalai Lama Compassion Copy Share Image
I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three… — Dalai Lama Commitment Copy Share Image
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery...we have learned that the key to happiness is inner… — Dalai Lama Being happy Copy Share Image
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by… — Dalai Lama Animal Copy Share Image
Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element… — Dalai Lama Accepting Copy Share Image