Quotes from Dalai Lama

The basic condition of human life is happiness.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

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

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Passion is what gives sense to our life.

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life.

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

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

I think governments can't do much.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.