Dalai Lama Quotes

We are the world.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.