Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 40

• If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

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  Compassion, Best Effort, Done

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• It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

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  Live Life, Suffering, Desire

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• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

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  Thinking, Focus, Welfare

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• In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

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  Moving, Men, Years

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• Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

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  Kindness, Mind, Peace Of Mind

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

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  Meaningful, Everyday, Mind

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• The most important thing in life is human affection.
  Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness.
  And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours
  or a happier nation, the key is inner quality.
  Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become
  millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace
  or any lasting happiness.

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  Things In Life, Lasting Happiness, Keys

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• I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

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  Feelings, Humans, Human Beings

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• If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

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  Buddhist, Independent, Ideas

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

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  Lying, Compassion, Reason Why

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.

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  Effort, Aspect, Again And Again

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

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  Practice, Meditation, Miserable

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• Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

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  Moving, Mean, Mind

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• Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

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  Buddhist, Believe, Understanding

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• Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

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  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

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  Religious, West, Harmony

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• Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

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  Past, Attention

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• I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

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  Religious, Thinking, Compassion

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• Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

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  Patterns, Way, Affection

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• I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

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  Thinking, Discipline, Behaviour

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.50, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Animal, Survival, Desire

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• Computers make me totally blank out.

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  Computer, Blank

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• I am just one human being.

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  Humans, Human Beings, Just One

  Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams (2016). “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World”, p.128, Penguin

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• The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

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  Patience, Enemy, Conditions

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.129, Penguin

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