Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.