Dalai Lama Quotes

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

It helps me when I help people.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

To be happy, make other people happy.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

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.

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.