Dalai Lama Quotes

I'd never hurt another person.

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.