Dalai Lama on affection
Dalai Lama96 quotes“A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.”
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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Dalai LamaDalai Lama Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Pain is inevitable,suffering is optional.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama All suffering is caused by ignorance.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama True change is within; leave the outside as it is.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans
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More on affection
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Can’t you see you’re toxic to me there’s no affection just obsession?
Mona-LiseMona-Lise The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
David HumeDavid Hume I was so moved by your false affections I was pushed right off the ledge but love didn’t come to find me abandonment did instead.
TMCTMC Any of us can live without affecting one another.
Frank OceanFrank Ocean