Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 7

• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• The point of life is happiness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Life Is

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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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• We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

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  Inspiring, Home, Responsibility

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

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  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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

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  Love, Fearless, Action

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• Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

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  Guidance, Guides, Companion

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• "The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Heart

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• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

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  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• An open heart is an open mind.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Mind

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

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  Compassion, Self, Calm Mind

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• Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

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  Self Esteem, Ocean, Quality

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• Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

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  Mind, Emotion, Problem

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

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  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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• If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

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  Worry, Needs, Problem

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• Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

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  Heart, Hatred, Mind

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• Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Exercise

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• Always engage yourself positively with situations.

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  Situation, Positively

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• Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

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  Compassion, World, Pillars

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.

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  Inspirational, Meaningful, Unhappy

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• It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

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  Loss, Inner Strength, Gains

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

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  Compassion, Two, Mind

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