Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.Dalai Lama
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.Dalai Lama
One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.Dalai Lama
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.Dalai Lama
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.Dalai Lama
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
