Dalai Lama Quotes

The end of pain we take as happiness.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.