Dalai Lama XIV

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."

"Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit."

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."

"Skepsis wirft Fragen auf, die zu Nachforschungen führen. Das ist sehr hilfreich, um neue Dinge zu entwickeln."

"Love is the absence of judgment."

"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."

"The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival."

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost."

"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."

"The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves."

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."

"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."

"To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness."

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