Dalai Lama Quotes

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

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

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

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

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.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.