“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or a hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives.”

— Dalai Lama · Happiness quote

Spiritual leader · born 1935

The 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1989), based in Dharamshala, India.

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