Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 30

• Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

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  Children, Compassion, Guarantees That

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• A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

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  Contentment, Wealth, Relation

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• We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)

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  Spiritual, Past, Capitalist Economy

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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

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  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

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  World, Down And, Way

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• We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

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  Life, Regret, Compassion

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.

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  Kindness, Believe, Responsibility

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• Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.

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  Use, Way, Emotion

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• The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

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  Heart, Use, Good Heart

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.51, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

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  Happiness, Two, Comfort

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• I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

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  Truth, Believe, Justice

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• I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

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  Religious, Believe, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2012). “The Compassionate Life”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

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  Motivation, Compassion, Practice

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• Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

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  Compassion, Color, Practice

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• Peace… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

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  Love, Peace, Inner Peace

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• Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

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  Friends, Peace, Buddhist

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• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

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  Happy, Responsibility, Peaceful

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• I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

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  Compassion, People, Inner Beauty

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• Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hatred

  The Dalai Lama (1997). “Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.92, Snow Lion Publications

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• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

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  Inspirational, Real, Heart

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

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  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

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  Feelings, Perception, Unhappy

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• Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.

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  Stress, Fighting, Differences

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• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

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  Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 32), 1990.

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• 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.

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  Revenge, Opportunity, Punishment

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