Life Quotes Quote by Dalai Lama — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.”

“Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

“Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.”

“The greatest antidote to insecurity and the sense of fear is compassion it brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength”

“Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.”

“With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”

“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”

“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”