Dalai Lama Quotes

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.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.