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You're happy when you help others become happy.

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One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
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Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.
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Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.
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Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.
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It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
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We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.
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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.
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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
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The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.
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