Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 11

• Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

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  Happy Life, Practice, Peaceful

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• The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

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  Real, Mind, Enemy

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• True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Attitude

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• Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

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  Gratitude, Buddhist, Opportunity

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• Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
  feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Real

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• The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion.

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  Meaningful, Religious, Real

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• The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

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  Life, Mind, Existential

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• If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

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  Space, World, Boundaries

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

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  Determination, Opportunity, Challenges

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

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  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction.

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  Self Confidence, Concern For Others, Giving

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

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• In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.

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  Thinking, Mind, Unhappy

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• The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

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  Thinking, Roots, Essentials

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• Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

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  Resentment, Misery, Vengeance

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• Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

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  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

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  Self Confidence, Compassion, Concern For Others

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• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

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  Inspirational, Stars, Happy Life

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

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  Wise, Bullying, Cheating

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• Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

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  Compassion, Concern For Others, Giving

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• Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

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  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of reconciliation. However, I believe that a human being, without religious faith, can be a very good person - sincere, a good heart, having a sense of concern for others - without belief in a particular religious faith.

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  Religious, Believe, Heart

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• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

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  Motivational, Perspective, Faces

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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