Dalai Lama XIV Quotes: 32

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

• Love is the absence of judgment.

• If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

• 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.

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

  The Art of Happiness

• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

• 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.

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

• This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  The Art of Happiness

• 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.

  The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama

• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

• The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

• Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

• To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

• Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

• Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

  The Art of Happiness

• A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

  The Art of Happiness

• Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

• Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

• I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

• The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

• From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

• The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves.

• Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit.

• Skepsis wirft Fragen auf, die zu Nachforschungen führen. Das ist sehr hilfreich, um neue Dinge zu entwickeln.