Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others."
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Concern For Others
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world."
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"Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship."
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"The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others."
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"Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace."
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"We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion."
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"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of."
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"The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel."
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"If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes."
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"By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace."
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"We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others."
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"Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not."
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"If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness."
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"More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness."
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"In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves."
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"What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires."
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"Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence."
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"A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume."
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