I would like to say that the very root of respect for human rights and nonviolence is love and kindness to others.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
In our daily life, tolerance and patience have great benefits: developing them will allow us to sustain and maintain our presence of mind.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
A Jug fills drop by drop.
-Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
-Buddha
The whole purpose of engaging in the practice of patience is to become stronger in mind, stronger in heart.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us, we need to make a sustained effort to cultivate them.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
- Gautama Buddha
Real peace and happiness has to come from the heart, from within. So therefore, to eliminate wars and destroying each other, to eliminate famine, disease and earthquakes,
and to eliminate all other disasters an unfavourable experiences, all this can be stopped by having loving kindness toward each other. From having a good heart with loving kindness, negative action cannot arise.
-Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-Gautama Buddha
Happiness and suffering comes from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work with your own mind.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Genuine love should first be directed at oneself – if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.
-His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama