Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 5

• Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

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  Happiness, Hate, Feelings

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• Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

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  Buddhist, Thinking, Breathing

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• Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

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  Everyday, Lotuses, Realization

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• To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

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  Awareness, Thousand, Oneself

  "The Path to Enlightenment".

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• Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

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  Looks, Angle, Situation

  "Mercedes-Benz deletes Dalai Lama quote from Instagram feed, apologises to Chinese consumers". www.scmp.com. February 6, 2018.

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• My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

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  Life, Kindness, Compassion

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

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  Simple, Contentment, Shelter

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• Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

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  Mind, Emotion, Problem

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• Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Peaceful

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• You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Compassion

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• So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

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  Spiritual, Smart, Heart

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• If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

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  Life, Worry, Needs

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• When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

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  Hate, Thinking, Politics

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• There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

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  Common Sense, Way, Humans

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• The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

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  Love, Fearless, Action

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• Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

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  Compassion, Small Acts, Purpose

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

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  Motivational, Perspective, Faces

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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  Sleep is the best meditation.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

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  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• I'd rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.

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  Be Kind, Kind

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• Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

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  Inspirational, Buddhist, Compassion

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

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  Reality, Inner Peace, Mind

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• Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

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  Inspirational, Difficult Situations, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• The point of life is happiness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Life Is

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