Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

I try not to think about the things I can't control.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'

Life is a crisis - so what!

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance