1,545 Quotes by Dalai Lama

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

When our commmunity is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind compassion opens it.

According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.