Dalai Lama Quotes About Opportunity

• If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Animal, Opportunity

• Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, World, Shapes

  "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

• At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Opportunity, People

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

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Opportunity, Challenges

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

  Dalai Lama

  Gratitude, Buddhist, Opportunity

• The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

  Dalai Lama

  Revenge, Opportunity, Punishment

• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

• Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Miracle, Challenges

• It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Realizing, Possibility

• To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Real, Opportunity

• From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

  Dalai Lama

  Jobs, Creativity, Mean

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

• The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Followers, Equal

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

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