Dalai Lama Quotes

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

When I have difficulties, I will not complain.

I have been through little situations. That makes me strong.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Strength and struggle travel together.

Adversity defines true character.

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.