Dalai Lama Quotes

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Things don't happen for no reason.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

Your world is one of cause and effect.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

The end was contained in the beginning.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.