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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 12

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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Philosophical, Mean, Responsibility

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Inspirational, Karma, Peace

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Believe, Happy Life, Purpose

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

Motivation, Real, Compassion

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.

Life, Happiness, Spiritual

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Life, Spiritual, Teacher

Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

Respect, Attitude, Long

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.172, Penguin Books India

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Thinking, Small Problems, Self

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Teaching, Heart, Brain

Source: www.motherjones.com

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Inspirational, Mistake, Trying

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Cheating, Prayer, Helping Others

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.103, Penguin Books India

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

Spiritual, Compassion, Working Together

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Real, Learned Person, Practice

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

Wisdom, Anger, Self

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.109, Univ of California Press

If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

Worry, Waste, Wasting Time

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

Peace, Community, Society

The enemy is a very good teacher.

Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

Opportunity, Goal, Effort

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

Mind, Needs, Emotion

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

Spiritual, Buddhist, Giving Up

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Fear, Real, Fall

Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Impact, Effects

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

Self, Focus, Anxiety

The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.54, Hachette UK

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.

Pain, Powerful, Inspiration

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