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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 9

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Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Life, Dream, Spiritual

The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Compassion, Humanity, Tears

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

Peace, Inspiration, Humanity

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Peace, Nature, Inspiration

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Mind, Events, Determined

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.33, Penguin

If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

Gains, Helping, Ifs

My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of reconciliation. However, I believe that a human being, without religious faith, can be a very good person - sincere, a good heart, having a sense of concern for others - without belief in a particular religious faith.

Religious, Believe, Heart

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

Country, Jobs, Lying

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Differences, People, Wish

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Real, Mind, Enemy

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Love, Inspirational, Family

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Needs, Benefits, Our Actions

There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?

Life, Spiritual, People

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

Worry, Situation, Can Do Something

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

Space, World, Boundaries

The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.12, Hachette UK

If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

Lonely, Motivation, Helping Others

The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Gratitude, Buddhist, Opportunity

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

Inspirational, Real, Mean

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Religious, Business, Buddhism

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

Inspirational, People, Chance

When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

Block, Mean, Reality

If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

Life, Real, Confusion

"The Little Book of Buddhism". Book by Dalai Lama, 2000.

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