Quote

A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Make
Greater
Concern
Atmosphere
Thinking
Friends
Beings
Helps
Helping
Positive
Fellows
Others
Strength
Genuine
Egoism
Around
Gives
Communicate
Spontaneously
Human
Instead
Easily
Tibetan
Humans
Attitude
Inner
Compassionate
Giving
Results
Result
Fellow

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Dalai Lama
Image
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.
Dalai Lama
Image
In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.
Dalai Lama
Image
I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.
Dalai Lama
Image
Inner disarmament, external disarmament these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
Dalai Lama
Image
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama
Image
In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.
Dalai Lama
Image
To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.
Dalai Lama
Image
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama
Image
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
Dalai Lama
Image
The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.
Dalai Lama
Image
Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.
Dalai Lama
Image
We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.
Dalai Lama
Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
Dalai Lama
Image
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.
Dalai Lama
Image
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
Dalai Lama
Image
Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.
Dalai Lama
Image
I am simply just one monk. That's all.
Dalai Lama
Image
You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
Dalai Lama
Image
What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
Dalai Lama