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)
• Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.The Path to Tranquility (1998)

More quotes on learning and wisdom

• Stuff your eyes with wonder.Ray Bradbury
• To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.George Orwell
• The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.Muhammad Ali
• Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.Vince Lombardi
• Young people need models, not critics.John Wooden
• You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.John Wooden

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