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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Dalai Lama
Anxiety, Suffering, Comfort

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Dalai Lama
Goal, Expectations, Suffering

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

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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.

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Simple, Suffering, Desire

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

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Spiritual, Suffering, Stage
Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.40, Penguin

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

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Compassion, Mind, Suffering

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.

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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

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

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Animal, Suffering, Social

I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

Dalai Lama
Believe, Suffering, Overcoming

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