Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.