Dalai Lama Quotes

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Sometimes you have to look at a start and say, 'Nothing is wrong.' Even when you get lit up, you still have to say 'Nothing is wrong.'

All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

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

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.