(15 quotes found)
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
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.”
“I am not the new Dalai Lama”
Bart Simpson
“The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, "You know what? Let's just grab lunch."”
Bill Maher
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“I asked him [Dalai Lama] the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddy Shack.”
Jesse Ventura
“If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing to offer to you. But the Tibet issue is moral issue. And your American ancestors, like Lincoln or Jefferson,I think they stood firmly on moral principle. American nuclear weapons and economic power alone will not,will not create more popularity. I don't admire your weapons. I really admire your principles, democracy, freedom, and liberty. Now, your policy, I think, must be guided by these things.”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“The more we learn about things existing in the world,the more we create our own concepts and fantasies,which are the products of our limited way of thinking and shaped by our limited senses .Instead of gaining wisdom,we increase our ignorances”
Lama rignga
“The fundamental policy of China on the question of Dalai Lama is that we demand that the Dalai Lama must acknowledge that Tibet and Taiwan are part of China and seriously and sincerely abandon his pursuit of 'Tibet independence' and then we can discuss about his personal future.”
Liu Jianchao