Dalai Lama Quotes

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

We know that we're fortunate. We have a wonderful life and it is an honour for us to be of service, and every single day dedicated to helping others and making this society and this country a better place for more people.

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

The Secret of living is giving

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

We are all here on earth to help others.