Dalai Lama Quotes about Peace

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

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Peace, Sadness, Meditation

The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

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God, Peace, Responsibility

The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

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Inspirational, Peace, Pain

The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

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Love, Forgiveness, Peace

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

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Peace, Inspiration, Humanity

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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Peace, Nature, Inspiration

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

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Trust, Wisdom, Peace

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

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Wise, Wisdom, Peace

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

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Life, Spiritual, Peace

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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Inspirational, Karma, Peace

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

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Peace, Community, Society

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

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Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

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Peace, Perfection, Mind

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

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Inspirational, Country, Peace

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

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Peace, War, Mean

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

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Love, Spiritual, Peace

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

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Peace, Believe, Mean

The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

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Peace, War, Reality

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

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Peace, Negative, Emotion

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

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Peace, Passion, World

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

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Peace, Freedom, Desire

Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

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Love, Peace, Inner Peace

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

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Friends, Peace, Buddhist