Dalai Lama Quotes

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.