Dalai Lama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Inevitable Quotes

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Inevitable Quotes

To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Teaching Quotes

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Mistake Quotes , People Quotes

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Selflessness Quotes

Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Moving Quotes , Men Quotes

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Atheism Quotes

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Technology Quotes , Thinking Quotes

In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Running Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , People Quotes , Honest Quotes

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Mean Quotes , Adversity Quotes

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Giving Quotes , Meaning Of Life Quotes

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Practice Quotes , People Quotes

The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient Indian thought, the law of karma applies. If you do something good, you get a good result. Now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. These nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Karma Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Heart Quotes