14th Dalai Lama

If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.

14th Dalai Lama

If with a warm heart and patience we can consider the views of others, and exchange ideas in calm discussion, we will find points of agreement.

14th Dalai Lama

If you can cultivate such wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

14th Dalai Lama

If you have a warm heart and you care for others you’ll be happy and the community in which you live will be happier too.

14th Dalai Lama

Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified.

14th Dalai Lama

In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness.

14th Dalai Lama

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn’t come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

14th Dalai Lama

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

14th Dalai Lama

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

14th Dalai Lama

In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

14th Dalai Lama