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Dalai Lama Quotes about Helping Others

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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Helping Others, Compassion, Support

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

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Hurt, Buddhism, Helping Others

Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

Inspirational, Helping Others, Compassion

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Pride, Helping Others, Attachment

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.135, Penguin Books India

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

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Kindness, Helping Others, Parent

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Hurt, Responsibility, Helping Others

Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.

Pain, Helping Others, Giving

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

Selfish, Helping Others, Thinking

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

Helping Others, Suffering, Helping

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

Helping Others, Black, Violence

There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

Helping Others, Power, Views

Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

Happiness, Helping Others, Suffering

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

You're happy when you help others become happy.

Happiness, Helping Others, Helping

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Kindness, Helping Others, Love Is

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