Dalai Lama XIV

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

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

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

"From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance"

"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."

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

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

"Love is the absence of judgment."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"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."

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be."

"From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance"

"Teile dein Wissen, so erlangst du Unsterblichkeit."