Dalai Lama Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Rights Quotes

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

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Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

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I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

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Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

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On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

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The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

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In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

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Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

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The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

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Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

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It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

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The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

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True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

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Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

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I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

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