Dalai Lama Quotes

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

My religion is, to live through Love.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.

No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.