Quote

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Mind
Destroyer
Destroyers
Anger
Ultimate
Peace
Inspirational

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
Dalai Lama
Image
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice
Dalai Lama
Image
Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama
Image
Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.
Dalai Lama
Image
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
Dalai Lama
Image
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.
Dalai Lama
Image
The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
Dalai Lama
Image
On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.
Dalai Lama
Image
In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
Image
It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.
Dalai Lama
Image
Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.
Dalai Lama
Image
The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.
Dalai Lama
Image
Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
Dalai Lama
Image
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
Dalai Lama
Image
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
Dalai Lama
Image
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
Dalai Lama
Image
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
Dalai Lama
Image
In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.
Dalai Lama
Image
I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.
Dalai Lama
Image
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only definitive truth for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
Dalai Lama