Dalai Lama Quotes

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I used to be an angry person.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

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.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I don't want to be walking around angry and feeling rage.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

I don't torture myself.