A quote by Dalai Lama XIV (2024)

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A quote by Dalai Lama XIV? ›

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. This is my simple religion.

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. Universal responsibility is the real key to human survival.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and their greatest advocate for a free Tibet. He travels the world spreading his message of peace, non-violence, and compassionate responsibility for his fellow man.

Dalai Lama Quotes on Happiness

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our hearts. Happiness is free, but priceless. The happiest people don't have the best of everything – they just make the best of everything. Be happy – not because everything is good, but because you see the good in everything.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.

To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel. If with a warm heart and patience we can consider the views of others, and exchange ideas in calm discussion, we will find points of agreement. Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

What did Dalai Lama say about peace? ›

People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

A Buddhist Advocate for Peace and Freedom

From his exile in India, the religious and political leader the Dalai Lama has since 1959 stood at the head of the nonviolent opposition to China's occupation of Tibet.

Though even the Dalai Lama can't prevent negative emotions, he finds makes an important point: while we cannot stop an unwholesome thought or emotion from arising, we have the power to let it go, and the highly trained mind can let it go the moment it arises.

He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso.

The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher's teacher Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".