Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 10

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

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  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

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  Forgiveness, Adversity, Forgiving

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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

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  Karma, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

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  Inspirational, Religious, Compassion

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• You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.

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  Attitude, Kindness, Oneness

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• If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

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  Worry, Situation, Can Do Something

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• 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.

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  Life, Real, Confusion

  "The Little Book of Buddhism". Book by Dalai Lama, 2000.

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• The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

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  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

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  Simple, Contentment, Shelter

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• Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

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  Letting Go, Attachment, Passionate Desire

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

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  Country, Jobs, Lying

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

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  Love, Inspirational, Family

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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• When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

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  Block, Mean, Reality

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• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

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  Love, Karma, Buddhist

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• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

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  Motivation, Character, Determine

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• God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

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  Doe, Tasks, God Exists

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

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  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Attitude, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama In Depth". "Yoga Journal" Interview, No. 90, (p. 51), January - February 1990.

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• Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

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  Discrepancies Between, Discrepancies

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• Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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  Mind, Events, Determined

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

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  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

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  Impact, Effects

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• When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

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  Stress, Worry, Looks

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• I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

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  Purpose, Want, Life Is

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