Dalai Lama Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.”

“I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.”

“My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.”

“Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.”

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

“Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.”

“Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.”

“At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.”

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

“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”