Dalai Lama Quotes

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

Gratitude is the antidote to fear.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

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

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.