Quote

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Inattentive
Harming
Inevitably
Others
Ends
Needs

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.
Dalai Lama
Image
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.
Dalai Lama
Image
Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.
Dalai Lama
Image
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
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
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
Dalai Lama
Image
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
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
The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
Dalai Lama
Image
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama
Image
If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.
Dalai Lama
Image
Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.
Dalai Lama
Image
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.
Dalai Lama
Image
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
Dalai Lama
Image
An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.
Dalai Lama
Image
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.
Dalai Lama
Image
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
Dalai Lama
Image
If you want change, create the causes.
Dalai Lama
Image
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
Dalai Lama
Image
Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
Dalai Lama