Dalai Lama Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I'm a work in progress.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.