Top 100 Dalai's Quotes

#1. More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #17889
#2. The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop's hand, and then they were more eight than eighty, laughing and making jokes together as they strolled toward the terminal, yellow umbrella sheltering above them. Even

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #22582
#3. Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #28750
#4. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #62954
#5. The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #65362
#6. Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #95527
#7. All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #102967
#8. Everything is interconnected. My
interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #111519
#9. Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head.

Ramez Naam

Dalai's Quotes #118937
#10. The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #129558
#11. The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #129607
#12. True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #146323
#13. The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Richard Gere

Dalai's Quotes #150871
#14. One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #153817
#15. If an individual has a calm state of mind,
that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
even in the presence of great agitation.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #167783
#16. I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #184649
#17. It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #194998
#18. But for all its benefits in offering moral guidance and meaning in life, in today's secular world religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #195101
#19. The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.'

Bill Maher

Dalai's Quotes #220240
#20. Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #251894
#21. Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #263613
#22. His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

Richard Gere

Dalai's Quotes #265299
#23. Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.

Neal Shusterman

Dalai's Quotes #280823
#24. I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #291930
#25. I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

Ashin Wirathu

Dalai's Quotes #369368
#26. I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #384139
#27. External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #387853
#28. Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #408505
#29. If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #462122
#30. Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #464260
#31. I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #478688
#32. The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #487625
#33. There's a Tibetan saying: 'Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.'" There

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #491210
#34. In today's interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #507939
#35. I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #508385
#36. Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Richard Gere

Dalai's Quotes #515359
#37. Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #523045
#38. We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #525992
#39. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

Elizabeth Kim

Dalai's Quotes #526489
#40. In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #533551
#41. I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #549288
#42. Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #591017
#43. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there's no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #606176
#44. Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #606624
#45. If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #622449
#46. The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #622630
#47. If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #642025
#48. Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products.

Laura Sydell

Dalai's Quotes #649166
#49. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #666902
#50. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #669717
#51. The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #674202
#52. In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #682861
#53. Positive and negative actions are determined by one's own motivation. If the motivation is good, all actions become positive; if the motivation is wrong, all actions become negative.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #690860
#54. It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #697679
#55. Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #698774
#56. Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #701590
#57. The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #706889
#58. The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #741777
#59. Someone else's action should not determine your response.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #767741
#60. I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #781169
#61. Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #801656
#62. Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is equal to one's own.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #805432
#63. Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #822819
#64. When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #845072
#65. There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #860967
#66. Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #871227
#67. There are various positive side effects of enhancing one's feeling of compassion. One of them is that the greater the force of your compassion, the greater your resilience in confronting hardships and your ability to transform them into more positive conditions.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #883196
#68. If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #892171
#69. If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #897910
#70. Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas's with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I'll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.

Louise Rennison

Dalai's Quotes #936251
#71. You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #952646
#72. It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #982211
#73. If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1010122
#74. Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1028858
#75. I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

Desmond Tutu

Dalai's Quotes #1061392
#76. Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1075153
#77. The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #1076110
#78. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1077212
#79. For example, if a person once had money but has none now, it's no use going shopping. Similarly, although we may have accumulated virtuous karma previously, it cannot benefit us if we have no virtuous karma in the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1104324
#80. China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1108421
#81. In Tibet there were practitioners in retreat who so strongly reflected on impermanence that they would not wash their dishes after supper. - PALTRUL RINPOCHE'S SACRED WORD

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1112269
#82. With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1135354
#83. If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1140076
#84. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1141865
#85. Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1155545
#86. The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1163542
#87. Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect. Not

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1174561
#88. FOLLOW YOUR HEART
for your heart will always know the answer. but if it tells you to strangle kittens or something then DON'T follow it anymore.I mean it's just a heart, right? It's not the Dalai lama.

Edward Monkton

Dalai's Quotes #1185378
#89. When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1188695
#90. Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1195308
#91. With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1209208
#92. Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

Pico Iyer

Dalai's Quotes #1235084
#93. Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1250186
#94. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1330774
#95. Given that a significant percentage of children suffer from attention deficit problems in today's world, especially in more materially affluent societies, I am told that substantial efforts are being made to understand the faculty of attention and its causal dynamics.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1335718
#96. We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1365870
#97. A simple smile. That's the start of
opening your heart and being
compassionate to others.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1366070
#98. Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dalai Lama

Dalai's Quotes #1368672
#99. We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1381764
#100. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

Dalai Lama XIV

Dalai's Quotes #1381791

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