Dalai Lama Quotes

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

Muslims should live like brothers.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

The end that we seek is a society at peace with itself.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

At the end of the day, I just want the world to live in peace and harmony.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

All men can live together, if they wish to.