Dalai Lama Quotes

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.