Dalai Lama Quotes

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

The Library is the heart of the University.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.