Dalai Lama Quotes

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.