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Living Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
- This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life…
- Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which…
- Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to…
- The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to…
- All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful…
- A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness…
- By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.
- Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
- There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you…
- Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just…
- The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience…
- As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery...we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.
- Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you cant help them, at least dont hurt them.
- Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future…
- The rationale for universal compassion is based on the same principle of spiritual democracy. It is the recognition of the fact that every living being…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov