Dalai Lama Quotes 2
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalai Lama | 6 July 1935 | Choekyong Tsering | Diki Tsering | Lama, Actor, Author, Philosopher | Dalai Lama, Tibet's political leader, has strived to make Tibet an independent and democratic state from China. He and his followers are exiled to India. |
A list of popular Dalai Lama quotes are given below.
"The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world." - Dalai Lama
"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures." - Dalai Lama
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." - Dalai Lama
"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways." - Dalai Lama
"Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion." - Dalai Lama
"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts." - Dalai Lama
"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster." - Dalai Lama
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." - Dalai Lama
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they've gotten lost." - 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." - Dalai Lama
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way." - 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." - Dalai Lama
"If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education." - Dalai Lama
"Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering." - Dalai Lama
"Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values." - Dalai Lama
"Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body." - Dalai Lama
"My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding." - Dalai Lama
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" - Dalai Lama