Dalai Lama Quotes

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

The love that I get outweighs the hate.

When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

Today I am loving and kind to myself and others.

Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever