Dalai Lama Quotes

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

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

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

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.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

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!

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

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

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.