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If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Related topics: Values Buddhist
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples,
no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples;
my philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression
by saying something,
and sometimes one creates as significant
an impression by remaining silent.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is very important to generate a good attitude,
a good heart, as much as possible.
From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term
for both yourself and others will come.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized
by a sense of Universal responsibility,
not only nation to nation and human to human,
but also human to other forms of life.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
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