Dalai Lama Greatest Quotes & Sayings

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way. — Star Jones

the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. — Dalai Lama XIV

That sure is a beautiful picture," she said. "Looks just like heaven or something." "Or something," said the painter. — Kurt Vonnegut

Children are our greatest untapped resource. — Dalai Lama

My enemy is my greatest teacher. — Dalai Lama

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.
We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as
anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama

No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love. — Kurt Vonnegut

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama

Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. — Neil Gaiman

The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength. — Dalai Lama

Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect. Not — Dalai Lama XIV

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life. — Dalai Lama XIV

Anger and hatred are the greatest obstacles to compassion and love. — Dalai Lama XIV

What do I believe that I deserve in this life? — Elizabeth Gilbert

The music is meant to be provocative - which doesn't mean it's necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it's dense with multiple meanings. Great rap should have all kinds of unresolved layers that you don't necessarily figure out the first time you listen to it. Instead it plants dissonance in your head. You can enjoy a song that knocks in the club or has witty punch lines the first time you hear it. But great rap retains mystery. It leaves shit rattling around in your head that won't make sense till the fifth or sixth time through. It challenges you. — Jay-Z

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. — Dalai Lama

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction. — Dalai Lama

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them. — Dalai Lama

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful. — John Woo

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology. — Beth Simone Noveck

Our enemies are our greatest teachers. — Dalai Lama

We all appreciate in others the inner qualities of kindness, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, and generosity, and in the same way we are all averse to displays of greed, malice, hatred, and bigotry.
The first beneficiaries of such a strengthening our inner values will, no doubt, be ourselves. Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect.
When a system is sound, its effectiveness depends on the way it is used.
So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, corruption, inequity, intolerance, and greed-all the outward manifestations of neglect of inner values-will persist. — Dalai Lama XIV

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it. — Dalai Lama

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. — Kenzaburo Oe

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama XIV

Compassion seems to be the greatest power. — Dalai Lama

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence. — Dalai Lama

According to Lyubomirsky, the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. These — Dalai Lama XIV

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. — Trent Reznor

I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. — Dalai Lama XIV

Oscar reties his bandana. 'You'll see, little bro. Soon you'll be taking European vacations with Jane and the rest of the Cobalt Empire - while Farrow, here, will be stuck at comic book conventions with the geek squad.' — Becca Ritchie