Dalai Lama Quotes

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

Compassion takes imagination.

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

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.

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

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

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

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

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

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.

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

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.