Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 52

• True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

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  True Friend, Share, Fortune

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2000). “The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

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  Animal, Faces, Affection

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• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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  Heart, Together, Use

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• We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

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  Mind, Spirit, Conflict

  "Open Heart: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life". Book by Dalai Lama, p.13, September 5, 2002.

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• It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

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  Opportunity, Realizing, Possibility

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• Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

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  Compassion, Training, Forgiveness Love

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• I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

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  Compassion, Always Believe, Humans

  "How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize Every Day" by Mara Shapshay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

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  Concern For Others, Mind, Source

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• Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

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  Luxury, House, Care

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• The basic condition of human life is happiness.

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  Life Is, Human Life, Humans

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• If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

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  Monk, Engineers, Ifs

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• We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

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  Buddhist, Believe, Self

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• Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

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  Compassion, Seems

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• I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

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  Believe, Mind, Age

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• It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

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  Mean, Adversity, Thinking

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

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  Deeds, May, Matter

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

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  Generosity, Obstacles, Beggar

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.

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  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

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  Old Friends, Honor, Trying

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• In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.

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  Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Answers, Mouths

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• I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

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  Animal, Wonderful, Wounded

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• A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

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  Appreciation, Kindness, Fundamentals

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• Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

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  Honest, Wealth, Environment

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• I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

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  Attitude, Peaceful, Important

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

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  Heart, Different, Way

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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