Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Tsem Tulku

Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.

If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem.

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.

The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.

A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.

Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously.

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!

What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.