Dalai Lama Quotes

I really do love the Dalai Lama quotes so much! I’m not alone on this one I just know it, I think he really is quite the amazing man. So full of wisdom, it makes me feel happy to read his quotes. I am sharing 10 of some of my favorites with you kind readers today. I hope you enjoy them and they inspire you as they do me. Maybe also make your day feel a little brighter and better! 🙂

1.If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

2.All major religious traditions carry basically the same message–That is love, compassion, and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

3.I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

4.The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

5.Whether one believes in religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

6.Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

8.Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought–so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

9.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.

10.Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Quotes About Happiness

I was thinking about happiness and went looking for some good happiness quotes. It’s something that we really all do need to find for ourselves. It’s my honest belief that happiness has to come from within ourselves…If we aren’t happy, never will we be able to make anyone else happy. Also, the thought that only happiness can be reached by another person or persons handing it to us? That’s so not going to happen, that’s just the way it is in real life. Maybe I’m not saying it the right way, I’m sure the quotes speak better than I can. I hope you kind readers enjoy them! 🙂

1.Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted~Deepak Chopra

2.Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared~Buddha

3.Some cause happiness wherever they go; Others whenever they go~Oscar Wilde

4.The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart~Tich Nhat Hanh

5.The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy~Dalai Lama

6.Happiness is a direction, not a place~Sydney J. Harris

7.Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for~Joseph Addison

8.Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony~Mahatma Gandi

9.You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life~Albert Camus

10.Every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness~Author Unknown

11.Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul~Democritus

12.All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin~Lord Byron

Earth Day Thoughts and Quotes

Earth Day is here and let’s all think about being kinder to Mother Earth! I know, we all say we are trying but we need to try harder! It’s about being aware every single day to recycyle, reuse, don’t pollute, pick up litter, stop the use of pesticides and the list goes on and on and on! It scares me to think of what will be left for future generations. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Earth Day is quite popular and celebrated every year. It really is about all of us inspiring awareness and appreciation for the enviroment for ourselves and passing it on to others! I want to share with you some quotes I found for this special day. I’m quite sure this will be an important topic today and many others will be writing a post about Earth Day. So, I feel it best to say it with quotes! After all, we are intelligent people and the majority of us are doing our part to save this planet Earth. Am I right or am I being hopelessly naive? I certainly hope I’m right, let’s think about what this day means! With that said, I give you the quotes and please enjoy them, think about them, too! 🙂

1.We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children~Native American Proverb

2.He that plants trees loves others besides himself~Thomas Fuller

3.Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money~Cree Indian Proverb

4.There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there would be no place to put it all~Robert Orben

5.There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet~Brooke Medicine Eagle

6.We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved~Author Unknown

7.It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nuture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live~Dalai Lama

8.Everyday is Earth Day~Author Unknown

9.There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew~Marshall McLuhan

10.I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use~Mother Teresa

Quotes About Friendship

I was thinking about friendship, and started looking through all the quotes about friends and friendship. We have so many different kind of friendships in our lifetime. Sisters are sometimes best friends, in Autumn’s and my case it really is very true. BFF‘s , as well as TF <3=Twins Forever! We may have friends since we were younger and it’s lasted throughout the ups and downs and the years. Autumn and I have a couple friends like that we grew up with. It’s nice comforting and special, too. Our very youngest sister is our very close friend as well. My late husband Dave was my best friend for many years. Autumn now has her darling man as hers, too. We can have parents as friends, we Twinnies were blessed with our Dad and Mom that way. We have cousins who are wonderful friends, our Aunt Karen is our very special friend, too. All of our important and cherished friends we have made through this blog! That’s a lot of friends and our friends are our blessings in this life. I hope you kind readers will like the 10 quotes about friends and friendship! 🙂

1.Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born~~Anais Nin

2.A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out~~Walter Winchell

3.Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend~~Albert Camus

4.A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg, even though he knows you are slightly cracked~~Bernard Meltzer

5.Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You, too I thought I was the only one.”~~C.S. Lewis

6.A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.~~Elbert Hubbard

7.A single rose can be my garden…A single friend, my world~~Leo Buscaglia

8.Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful; A meaningful friend–or a meaningful day~~Dalai Lama

9.The only way to have a friend is to be one~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.Friends are kisses blown to us by angels~~Author Unknown

Quotes About Compassion ~ by Gabby Angel

It’s something I was thinking about…Compassion. I truly wish people would show compassion for one another, it’s so important. I looked at quite a few quotes about compassion and these are my top ten! I honestly hope you enjoy them and it does give us something again to ponder for today, doesn’t it?

1. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will~~William Cowper

2. It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion towards others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others~~Author Unknown

3.The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love~~Khalil Gibran

4. I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it~~Thomas Aquinas

5.Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation~~Henry Ward Beecher

6.Compassion is not religious business, it is human business. It is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability. It is essential for human survival~~Dalai Lama

7. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.~~Buddha

8.Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless~~Eric Hoffer

9.Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy~~Giovanni Boccaccio

10. Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves~~Mason Cooley