“stress and anxiety come from our expectations of how life should be.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps nothing more joyous than birth, and yet so much of life is spent in sadness, stress, and suffering.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“...the very "purpose of life" - the goal of avoiding suffering and discovering happiness.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“we are able to create and re-create our lives and the very quality of human life on our planet.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Most people never pay much attention to the ultimate source of a happy life, which is inside, not outside. Even the source… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“If we analyze or dissect a flower, looking for the flower among its parts, we shall not find it ... And yet,… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“One great question underlies our existence,” the Dalai Lama had said before the trip. “What is the purpose of life? After much… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“It is our suffering that is the most basic element that we share with others, the factor that unifies us with all… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“When life becomes too complicated and we feel overwhelmed, it’s often useful just to stand back and remind ourselves of our overall… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“External enemies, however brutal they are, only affect us during one lifetime. They have no power to harm us beyond this life.… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“It is only natural that difficulties arise if we must fight day by day in order to survive while another human being,… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“We are but visitors on this planet. We are here for ninty or one hundred years at the very most. During that… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“According to the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama, when we see how little we really need—love and connection—then all the getting and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“All phenomena—causes and effects, agents and actions, good and bad—merely exist conventionally; they are dependent-arisings. Because phenomena depend upon other factors for… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“In daily life we experience suffering more often than pleasure. If we are patient, in the sense of taking suffering voluntarily upon… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“They do not exist in their own right, but only have an existence dependent upon many factors, including a consciousness that conceptualizes… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Adversity, illness, and death are real and inevitable. We chose whether to add to these unavoidable facts of life with the suffering… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“In the frenzy of modern life we lose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we've utilized our… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“Transforming the mind involves first learning to know it, then identifying how it functions so as to eliminate the three main mental poisons, which… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training, we… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“Live so when your children think of fairness and integrity they think of you.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek to benefit… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“Marriages, even the best ones—perhaps especially the best ones—are an ongoing process of spoken and unspoken forgiveness. •” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“You see, if there are no difficulties and you are always relaxed, then you complain more” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“Joy can span from the pleasure of others’ good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others’ misfortune, what the Germans call… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“If you think only of yourself, if you forget the rights and well-being of others, or, worse still, if you exploit others, ultimately you… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
