Dalai Lama Quotes

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing focus, probably true. But where my heart is, is with people who are just passing through difficult time. I want to put literature in a form that is accessible for people who don't particularly read books.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

A good book is an education of the heart.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

You learn to love by loving.

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

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."