Famous Dalai Lama Quotes ..

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
  14th Dalai Lama > Happy, Compassion Quotes
• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. Practice brings the clear realization of the oneness of all human beings and the importance of others benefiting by your actions.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Feelings, Compassion, Attitude, Kindness, Spirituality, Motivating, Respect, Actions, Human Beings, Important Quotes
• Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.
  14th Dalai Lama > Motivating, Optimistic, Confused Quotes
• If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Knowing, Human Beings, Confused, Peace, Hope, Family, Self Quotes
• When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Feelings, Happy, Kindness, Caring, Peace, Self Quotes
• If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others.
  14th Dalai Lama > Feelings, Heart, Fear, Confidence, Self Quotes
• The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Happy, Feeling, Help, Compassion, Caring, Human Beings
• A true friendship develops on the basis of genuine human affection, not money or power. Of course, due to your power or wealth, more people may approach you with big smiles or gifts. But deep down these are not real friends of yours; these are friends of your wealth or power.
  14th Dalai Lama > Human Beings, Friendship, Power, Affection, Money, Gifts, Smiling Quotes
• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counterforces, like love and compassion.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Compassion, Emotions, Anger, Negative Quotes
• It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
  14th Dalai Lama > Compassion, Tolerance, Lesson Quotes
• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
  14th Dalai Lama > Compassion, Tolerance, Self Quotes
• Once you try to control or discipline your anger, then eventually even big events will not cause anger.
  14th Dalai Lama > Control, Discipline, Anger
  
• It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others, that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore, we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Human Beings, Help, Tolerance, Dependence, Responsible Quotes
  
• Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. It results from the profound interdependence we all share with one another. However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. However vigorous and independent one may feel during the most prosperous periods of life, when one is sick or very young or very old, one must depend on the support of others.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Happy, Compassion, Help, Human Beings, Dependence, Sharing, Skillful, Support Quotes
  
• It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
  14th Dalai Lama > Happy, Good, Heart, Attitude, Important, Self Quotes
• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
  14th Dalai Lama > Love, Compassion, Religion, Forgiveness Quotes
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples.. no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
  14th Dalai Lama > Kindness, Heart, Religion, Philosophy, Self Quotes
• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
  14th Dalai Lama > Kindness, Religion Quotes

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