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Dalai Lama Inspirational Quotes (813)

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In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
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I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
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Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.
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If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
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Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.
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I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope
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One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.
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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.
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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
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Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .
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We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.
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When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
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The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.
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The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
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Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
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