Dalai Lama Quotes about Desire

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Dalai Lama

Understanding, Desire, Want

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Dalai Lama

Rich Or Poor, Suffering, Desire

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

Dalai Lama

Contentment, Desire, Purpose

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

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Dalai Lama

Peace, Freedom, Desire

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

Dalai Lama

Suffering, Desire, Overcoming

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

Dalai Lama

Hands, Desire, Violence

"The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "The Nobel Evening Address" p. 115, 1990.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Dalai Lama

Responsibility, Desire, Wish

"Dalai Lama ready to give up political power". www.cnn.com. March 10, 2011.

What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.

Dalai Lama

Desire

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Dalai Lama

Desire, Negative, Sometimes

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.37, Penguin

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

Dalai Lama

Live Life, Suffering, Desire

The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.

Dalai Lama

Animal, Survival, Desire

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Dalai Lama

Desire, Ethics, Indispensable

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

Suffering, Desire, Comfort

The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

Dalai Lama

Simple, Suffering, Desire

Dalai Lama Quotes about Desire

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