Dalai Lama Quotes

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

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

My religion is, to live through Love.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

The religion of humanity is love.

My religion is kindness.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.