Quotes from the 14th Dalai Lama Think of them as an instruction manual for living a life of peace, happiness, and compassion.
True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.
There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.” The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one’s desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
Inner peace is the key: If you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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.
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.
