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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Dalai Lama quotes


"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." 
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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." 
"Love is the absence of judgment." 
"The Dalai Lama's Instructions for life: 
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 
Follow the three R's: 
- Respect for self. 
- Respect for others. 
- Responsibility for all your actions. 
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. 
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. 
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 
Spend some time alone everyday. 
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. 
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. 
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. 
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. 
Be gentle with the earth. 
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. 
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. 
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon." 
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." 
"Silence is sometimes the best answer" 
"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." 
"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' 
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster." 
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." 
"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." 
"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." 
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." 
"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks." 
"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever." 
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." 
"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness." 
"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness." 
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." 
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength." 
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek." 
"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." 
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." 
"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion." 
"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding." 
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." 
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. " 
"The more you are motivated by Love, 
The more Fearless & Free your action will be." 
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day." 
"Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day." 
"A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you." 
"When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it." 
"There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?" 
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves." 
"Instructions for life: 

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 

Follow the three R's: 
- Respect for self. 
- Respect for others. 
- Responsibility for all your actions. 

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. 

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. 

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 

Spend some time alone everyday. 

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. 

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. 

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. 

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. 

Be gentle with the earth. 

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. 

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. 

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon." 
"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience." 
"All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction" 
"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts." 
"When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present." 
"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure." 
"The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world." 
"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others." 
"If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry." 
"Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion." 
"Compassion is the radicalism of our time." 
"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger." 
"The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart." 
"Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity. 
"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." 
"Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue." 
"If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims." 

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