Dalai Lama Quotes

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I'll never be that guy who's going to yell and scream at people.

I'm not an emotional fighter.

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.