Dalai Lama Quotes

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

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.

To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Good temper is an estate for life.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.