Dalai Lama Quotes, Wise Quotes, Selfish Quotes

Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

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If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.

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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

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