Dalai Lama Quotes About Survival

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Business, Buddhism

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Faith, Religious

• Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Inspiration, Feelings

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

• Everything is interconnected. My
  interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Survival, Enemy

• When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.

  Dalai Lama

  Mother, Children, Animal

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

• Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Community

• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

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

• We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Suicide, War, Ocean

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.136, Penguin Books India

• I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Compassion, Survival

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.93, Penguin

• Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Love Is, Compassion

• Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Survival, Morality, Conservation

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2004). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.55, Parallax Press

• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Struggle, Teaching

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Self

• The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Healthy, Survival

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Survival, Way

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Survival, Way

• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

• Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Survival

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

• The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Survival, Desire

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