Dalai Lama Quotes

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Everybody handles things differently.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

In England, especially, mentally if you're not strong it can eat you up. There's the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you're not mentally strong, it can eat you.

In any household, whenever you are a family that's going through something tough - whether it's an illness or whatever the case may be, families tend to close their doors and become more private.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!