Dalai Lama

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger. ”

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

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

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. ”

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. ”

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. ”

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ”

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ”

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ”

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. ”