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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #contentment #desire #discontent #everything

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#be happy #happy #lives #our #our lives

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#backward #cannot #china #democracy #freedom

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#daily #daily lives #desist #find #harming

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#never #obtain #ourselves #outer #outer world

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#before #characterized #ever #forms #human

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#cannot #human #live #meditation #religion

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#appreciate #believes #compassion #kindness #rebirth

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#good #particular #religion #survive #without

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#generally #hours #i #i think #live