Dalai Lama Quotes

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

To be happy, make other people happy.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

True contentment comes with empathy.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

It's an awful world out there. You've got to make people happy.

If I could teach people to be grateful, we could have an amazing world where negativity could not grow and foster, and children would have a smile on their face.

If I have superpowers, I would eliminate all negative people and all negativity from this world.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.