Dalai Lama Quotes

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.