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Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings QUOTES

1 " Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

2 " From the Buddhist point of view, all living beings -- that is, beings with feelings, experiences, and sensations -- are considered equal. Human beings can live without eating meat. As human beings, I think that deep down our nature tends towards vegetarianism and leads us to do everything in our power to prevent harming other species. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

3 " Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should turn all our factories into weapons factories. But that is impossible. Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

4 " War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

5 " Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

6 " In daily life we experience suffering more often than pleasure. If we are patient, in the sense of taking suffering voluntarily upon ourselves, even if we are not capable of doing this physically, then we will not lose our capacity for judgement. We should remember that if a situation cannot be changed, there is no point in worrying about it. If it can be changed, then there is no need to worry about it either, we should simply go about changing it. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

7 " In this world, all qualities spring from preferring the wellbeing of others to our own, whereas frustrations, confusion, and pain result from selfish attitudes. By adopting an altruistic outlook and by treating others in the way they deserve, our own happiness is assured as a byproduct. We should realize that self-centeredness is the source of all suffering, and that thinking of others is the source of all happiness. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

8 " Many of today's world leaders have great courage: the courage to do harm. The are ill-advised, too clever, or too skillful. I think bad political systems, by which I mean systems that are not founded on a desire for justice, are mainly due to a type of short-sightedness. When politicians see things only in the short term, they inevitably only see the short-term gains. That is how they develop the type of courage that is necessary to harm others. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

9 " If a misfortune has already occurred, it is best not to worry about it, so we do not add fuel to the problem. Don't ally yourself with past events by lingering on them and exaggerating them. Let the past take care of itself, and transport yourself to the present while taking whatever measures are necessary to ensure that such a misfortune never occurs again, now or in the future. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

10 " Who is the enemy? Ignorance, anger, attachment, and pride are the ultimate enemies; they are not outside, but within, and must be fought with the weapons of wisdom and meditative concentration. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

11 " Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

12 " Pride If you assume a humble attitude, your own good qualities will increase, whereas when you are full of pride there is no way to be happy. You will become jealous of others, angry with them, and look down on them, due to which an unpleasant atmosphere will be created and unhappiness in society will increase. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings

13 " if a situation cannot be changed, there is no point in worrying about it. If it can be changed, then there is no need to worry about it either, we should simply go about changing it. "

― Dalai Lama XIV , Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings