Quotes By Dalai Lama

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

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

I am just one human being.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I think governments can't do much.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.