Dalai Lama Quotes About Age

• There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Sky, Touching

• The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Age, Levels

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1993.

• Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Age

• One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Buddhist, Leader

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

• I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Mind, Age

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