Dalai Lama Quotes

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

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

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.