Dalai Lama Quotes

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.

Dalai Lama

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov
- Never
- Doing
- Morals
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Byrne
- Friend
- Football
- Dying
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

Edmund Phelps
- Long
- America
- Black
I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

Gary Dourdan
- People
- Myself
- Week
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

Rachel Swirsky
- People
- Up
- Good
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

Maggie Hassan
- Day
- Doing
- Everyday