Quotes from Dalai Lama

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

Love is the absence of judgment.

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

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

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

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

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.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.