"My enemy is my greatest teacher."
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"The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness."
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"We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force."
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"Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace."
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"Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday."
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"What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination."
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"I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to."
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"In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles."
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"While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water."
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"(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness."
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"An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness."
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"When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires."
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"We all have the potential to be better than we are."
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"We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness."
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"A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness"
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"I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion."
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"Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering."
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"Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided."
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"Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance."
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"The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
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