675 Quotes by Dalai Lama XIV

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.

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana – genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity’s problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.