"Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not."
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"We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong."
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"You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation."
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"If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out."
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"First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others."
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"Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them."
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"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness."
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"Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day."
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"When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection."
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"There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt."
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"Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions"
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"We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind."
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"If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely."
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"Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe."
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"Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one."
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"Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone."
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"It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds."
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"Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy."
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"It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal."
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"Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities."
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