Dalai Lama Quotes

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.