Dalai Lama Inspirational Quotations [Page 2]

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

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

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

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

I do not judge the universe.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.