“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

—  Tenzin Gyatso

As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.

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