Dalai Lama Quotes

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.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

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.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.