Dalai Lama Quotes

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Peace is its own reward.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.

The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy.

I'm personally bored with all the hate and have a wonderful, healthy life with my daughter.

Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.