The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ...
by Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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Sayings by Dalai Lama
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
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If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Purpose Sayings
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
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You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
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