Dalai Lama Quotes.

Dalai Lama is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people.
The real name of present Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso. He is the 14th Dalai Lama.

6 July 1935- present

His Best quotes:

1. 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.
2. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
3. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
4. What is love? Love is the absence of judgment.
5. The world doesn't belong to leaders, the world belongs to all humanity.
6. Many of our problems stem from attitudes like putting ourselves first at all costs.
7. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know; but when you listen, you may learn something new.
8. I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it.
9. Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
10. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
11. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
12. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
13. The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
14. There are no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
15. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
16. When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself. You will learn both peace and joy.
17. Be ready to change your goals, but never change your value.
18. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
19. Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
20. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
21. In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
22. To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
23. Sleep is the best meditation.
24. The seed of goodness is found in the soil of appreciation.
25. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
26. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
27. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
28. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
29. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
30. The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
31. Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
32. The first step toward living a happy life is to treat every other human with kindness. There are several steps after that, but I can't remember right now.
33. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
34. There are always problems to face, but it makes a difference if our mind are calm.
35. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
36. A content man could also be a woman. Doesn’t matter what gender you are.
37. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
38. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others.
39. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
40. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
41. We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.
42. It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basic of prayer; what we need is to take action.
43. There brothers walked in a forest until their path was blocked by a raging river. The brothers' names were Fear, Love, and Courage. Eventually, they get across the river by drowning Fear and using him as a boat.
44. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
45. When a person thinks that everything is going wrong, something wonderful happens in his life.
46. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
47. Silence is sometimes the best answer.
48. Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened if something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures. You have to take counter-measures.
49. If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
50. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
51. If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.
52. Everything is going to be alright, may be not today but eventually.
53. We need to incorporate a sense of inner values in our education and learn how to tackle our emotions.
54. True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.
55. Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer alone.
56. Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
57. If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
58. The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.
59. Everything you do has some effect, some impact.
60. Choose to be optimistic. It feel better.
61. The mind is like a parachute it works best when it is open.