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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 4

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The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Honesty, Compassion, Concern For Others

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Clever, Inspiration, Mother And Son

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Spiritual, Love Is, Compassion

Dalai Lama (2012). “The Compassionate Life”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Inspirational, Success, God

"Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Life, Education, Spiritual

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Positive, Happiness, Forgiveness

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

Inspirational, Cherish, Breathe

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

Weakness, Reason, Ends

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Heart, Aging, Ifs

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

Giving, Firsts, Absolutely Nothing

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

Inspirational, Action, Should

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Diversity, Enough, Rectify

Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

Mind, Emotion, Problem

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

Sadness, Waiting, Understanding

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Gratitude, Inspiration, Thinking

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Inspirational, Buddhist, Compassion

"Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Awareness, Thousand, Oneself

"The Path to Enlightenment".

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.

Happy, Compassion, Greed

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Inspirational, Yoga, Love You

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

Happiness, Hate, Feelings

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Life, Kindness, Compassion

Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

Attitude, Offering, Generosity

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

Inspiring, Spiritual, Compassion

"Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama" edited by Margaret Gee, (p. 71), 2001.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

Kindness, Compassion, Peaceful

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