"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
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"If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you."
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"I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life."
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"Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year."
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"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
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"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
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"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life."
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly, live."
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"Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up."
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"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."
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"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful."
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"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."
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"It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved."
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"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."
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"I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less."
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"I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation."
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"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger."
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"A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness"
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"Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering."
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