Dalai Lama Quotes

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.