Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
- Topic: Education, Kindness
- Location: Honduras, Roatan
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Dalai Lama
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
More Quotes from Honduras
More on These Topics
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
Public education has not produced an educated public.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.