Dalai Lama Quotes

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Kindness is virtue itself.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.