Dalai Lama Quotes

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.