Tsem Tulku Quotes & Sayings

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life. — Tsem Tulku

If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem. — Tsem Tulku

What you are today is the choice you made yesterday. — Tsem Tulku

Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution. — Tsem Tulku

If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat? — Tsem Tulku

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest. — Tsem Tulku

Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better. — Tsem Tulku

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is. — Tsem Tulku

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others. — Tsem Tulku

A persons outer action reflects their inner mind. — Tsem Tulku

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again. — Tsem Tulku

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible. — Tsem Tulku

When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction. — Tsem Tulku

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions. — Tsem Tulku

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma — Tsem Tulku

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have. — Tsem Tulku

The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose. — Tsem Tulku

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It! — Tsem Tulku

Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously. — Tsem Tulku

Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM. — Tsem Tulku

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve. — Tsem Tulku

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda. — Tsem Tulku

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure. — Tsem Tulku