100+ Dalai Lama Quotes & Sayings

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
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Attitude Change Compassion Hurt Negative
People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
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Deep Happiness Pain People Satisfaction Selfish
Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
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Expectation Happiness Life Pursuit
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness One Liner People Roads
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
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Failure Immediate Mistake Realize Sorry Succes
All suffering is caused by ignorance.
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Deep Hurt Ignorance One Liner Pain Suffering
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.
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Future Hustle Inspirational Life Past Year
True change is within; leave the outside as it is.
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Change Leaving One Liner Outside True
The way to change others’ minds is with affection, and not anger.
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Affection Angry Attachment Change Love One Liner
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education Man Poverty Religion Rich Woman
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
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Fly Freedom Love Reason Roots Stay Wings
An eye for an eye. We are all blind.
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Blind Eyes Funny Humour One Liner
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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Gun Reason Shoot Try
The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.
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Happiness Life One Liner Purpose Seek
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
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Helping Hurt Purpose Selfish
An open heart is an open mind.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner Open Minded
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!
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Chance Goodness Happen Happiness Self Love
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
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Discipline Happiness Lead Suffering
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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Obtain Peace World
It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.
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Action Compassion Enough One Liner
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
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Dreamss Each Other Earth Harmony Learning Nature Necessary Peace Planet
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
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Acceptance Earth Human Mother Population Presence Silence Stage Technology
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
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Answer Hurt One Liner Silence Sorry
Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.
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Nature One Liner Precious Recognize Try
Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.
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Change Friendship Life Time
The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
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Angry Conquer Hatred Hero One Liner True
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success Victory

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