About Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1935)

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• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.As quoted in Meditations for Living in Balance (2000)
• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.As quoted in Words of Wisdom (2001)
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
• It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.Nobel Peace Prize lecture (1989)
• It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.Ocean of Wisdom (1989)

More quotes on happiness

• Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.Voltaire
• Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
• Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.Friedrich Nietzsche
• Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.Friedrich Nietzsche
• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.Bertrand Russell

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