Compassion and generosity must be accompanied by detachment. Expecting something in return for them is like doing business. If the owner of a restaurant is all smiles with his customers, it is not because he loves them but because he wants to increase his turnover. When we love and help others, it should not be because we find a particular individual likable but because we see that all beings, whether we think of them as friends or enemies, want to be happy and have the right to happiness.

14th Dalai Lama

quoted in the book On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters

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Further quotes from the book On the Path to Enlightenment:

• The alternation of thoughts
• Free Perception
• The enemies dwelling in your mind
• Right Time
• Cut the knot of greed
• Just as clouds
• Apply yourself unrelentingly to spiritual practice
• Clarity and emptiness
• Whatever you do
• Trample on anger with realization
• See the difference
• You who have a precious human life
• The four boundless qualities
• Our journey will have been useless
• Only the fool wants more pain
• Like gold hidden in its matrix
• To end suffering
• The ultimate nature of mind
• True compassion