Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 4

• Smile if you want a smile from another face.

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  Want, Faces, Ifs

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• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Insecure

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

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  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

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  Sadness, Waiting, Understanding

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• Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

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  Sweet, Strong, Teaching

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.49, Penguin Books India

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• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

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  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

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• We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.

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  Faces, Size, Difficulty

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• As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

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  Inspirational, Cherish, Breathe

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• Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2012). “The Compassionate Life”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

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  True Friend, Affection, Results

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• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

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  Thinking, Way, Ethics

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• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

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  Peace, Sadness, Meditation

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• When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

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  Weakness, Reason, Ends

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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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• It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

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  Diversity, Enough, Rectify

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

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  Giving, Firsts, Absolutely Nothing

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• Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wonder

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• Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

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  Attitude, Offering, Generosity

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• Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

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  Love, Kindness, Heart

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• If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

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  Inspirational, Yoga, Love You

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• To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

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  Positive, Happiness, Forgiveness

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• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

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  Love, Karma, Buddhist

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• A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

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  Thousand, Lit, Originals

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• Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

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  Gratitude, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

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  Wisdom, Prayer, Meditation

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