Quotes from Dalai Lama

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

Now is the time when your action is practice.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly, live.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.