Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. — Dalai Lama Human happiness Copy Share Image
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. — Dalai Lama Appreciation Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home. — Dalai Lama Gardening Copy Share Image
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — Dalai Lama Inner peace Copy Share Image
If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see… — Dalai Lama Boundaries Copy Share Image
There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are. — Dalai Lama Bigs Copy Share Image
Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved)… — Dalai Lama Buddhist Copy Share Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. — Dalai Lama Als Copy Share Image
Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. — Dalai Lama Disappear Copy Share Image
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help. — Dalai Lama Compassion Copy Share Image
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion. — Dalai Lama Compassion Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well. — Dalai Lama Ifs Copy Share Image
If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think… — Dalai Lama Being happy Copy Share Image
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual… — Dalai Lama Compassion Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed… — Dalai Lama Achieve Copy Share Image
I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in… — Dalai Lama Can do Copy Share Image
People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think… — Dalai Lama Animal Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately… — Dalai Lama Absence Copy Share Image
We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates… — Dalai Lama Able Copy Share Image
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested… — Dalai Lama Character Copy Share Image
I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some… — Dalai Lama Artificial Copy Share Image
Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting… — Dalai Lama Benefits Copy Share Image
Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to… — Dalai Lama Achieve Copy Share Image
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in… — Dalai Lama Beginnings and ends Copy Share Image
I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort… — Dalai Lama Birth Copy Share Image
I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our… — Dalai Lama Affection Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn… — Dalai Lama Activate Copy Share Image
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood… — Dalai Lama Battle Copy Share Image
There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child. — Dalai Lama Attitude Copy Share Image
