Tenzin Gyatso Happiness Quotes

#1. ...The words Dalai Lama mean different things to different people, that for me they refer only to the office I hold. Actually, Dalai is a Mongolian word meaning 'ocean' and Lama is a Tibetan term corresponding to the Indian word guru, which denotes a teacher. From Freedom in Exile, the Autobiography of the Dalai Lama #Quote by Tenzin Gyatso

#2. The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. #Quote by Kelsang Gyatso

#3. There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#4. Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#5. Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#6. In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#7. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#8. No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#9. Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#10. All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#11. We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#12. When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#13. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#14. Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#15. Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind. #Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#16. Tell them that they can trust their hearts and awareness to awaken in the midst of all circumstances. #Quote by Dalai Lama XIV Tenzin Gyatso

#17. Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind. #Quote by Kelsang Gyatso

#18. For Dad. I miss you. Feel no guilt in laughter, he'd know how much you care. Feel no sorrow in a smile that he is not here to share. You cannot grieve forever; he would not want you to. He'd hope that you could carry on the way you always do. So, talk about the good times and the way you showed you cared, The days you spent together, all the happiness you shared. Let memories surround you, a word someone may say Will suddenly recapture a time, an hour, a day, That brings him back as clearly as though he were still here, And fills you with the feeling that he is always near. For if you keep those moments, you will never be apart And he will live forever locked safely within your heart. --Unknown #Quote by Heather McCoubrey

#19. Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. #Quote by Cory Doctorow

#20. Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#21. Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong
To him that blends no fable with his song)
Whose lines uniting, by an honest art,
The faithful monitors and poets part,
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,
And while they captivate, inform the mind.
Still happier, if he till a thankful soil,
And fruit reward his honorable toil:
But happier far who comfort those that wait
To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate #Quote by William Cowper

#22. Life isn't fair nor unfair, it just gives us what it gives us. It's entirely indifferent to our perspectives. It doesn't matter what we think or feel we deserve nor don't deserve. We get what we get. Life isn't sympathetic our wants or desires, it's apathetic.

But that doesn't mean we can't influence it. Though we can't control what life gives us, We can control how we handle it as well as our outlook. With the right outlook & method of handling situations, we can make the best of the worst situations. Life won't always give us what we want, bad things do happen. But they help us appreciate the good when we have it. It's what gives the good it's value. the contrast with the bad.

So make the best of things, & cherish the good when you get it. Don't worry about finding fairness, you won't. Just worry about making the best of your life, & what you get. And enjoy the good life brings. #Quote by Trevor Driggers

#23. I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven't had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public's. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. #Quote by Maria Callas

#24. This is a life you do not understand. Yes, your home is in the city, and you have furnished it with vanities, with pictures and books; but you have a wife and a servant and a hundred expenses. Asleep or awake you must keep pace with the world and are never at peace. I have peace. You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. If you ask me intellectual questions and try to trip me up, then I will reply, for example, that God is the origin of all things and that truly men are mere specks and atoms in the universe. You are no wiser than I. But if you should go so far as to ask me what is eternity, then I know quite as much in this matter, too, and reply thus: Eternity is merely unborn time, nothing but unborn time. #Quote by Knut Hamsun

#25. It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and the guide will be different for people, once the door is open, we are all in the same territory. Spiritual truth irretrievably alters our way of seeing reality and our ability to heal both ourselves and other people. Most spiritual awakening is due to a total disappointment in the human condition to provide any sense of substantial happiness. It is a blessing in disguise. Our greatest need is for the love and assurance that spiritual understanding brings. If it were not for the common experience of human lovelessness and limitation then we would not be driven to seek a higher love. #Quote by Donna Goddard

#26. Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex. #Quote by Anthony Daniels

#27. There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#28. A thankful heart is a happy heart. #Quote by Anonymous

#29. I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to pursue happiness, and I hope all of them decide to stay and become American citizens, but I want them to become American. And part of becoming American involved English. It is vital historically to assert and establish that English is the common language at the heart of our civilization. #Quote by Newt Gingrich

#30. When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world. #Quote by Nhat Hanh

#31. But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. #Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

#32. Being grateful for what you have is the key to peace and happiness. #Quote by Pravin Agarwal

#33. We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it #Quote by Epicurus

#34. Love is a thread that ties us together. Separation makes this thread much stronger. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#35. It's not that "sorry" doesn't mean anything; it just doesn't mean anything when some people say it ... Don't be one of those people. #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#36. Christian, if you are not now as you "were in months past," do not rest satisfied with wishing for a return of former happiness, but go at once to seek your Master, and tell him your sad state. Ask his grace and strength to help you to walk more closely with him; humble yourself before him, and he will lift you up, and give you yet again to enjoy the light of his countenance. Do not sit down to sigh and lament; while the beloved Physician lives there is hope, nay there is a certainty of recovery for the worst cases. #Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#37. I'm beginning to recognise that real happiness isn't something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row. #Quote by Beau Taplin

#38. Human emotion. Millions of souls, together they make the mood of a certain time. It doesn't matter that they disagree, that they hate, that they fight. All together they create it, this thing. This epoch. Times of war. Times of famine. Times of wealth and happiness. The mood of an era. What is stronger than that? #Quote by Bee Ridgway

#39. The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation. #Quote by Dalai Lama

#40. Can we truly expect to experience enormous joy and happiness in our lives if the first concern we have in the morning upon wakening is to be on time to a job that does not bring us joy and excitement? #Quote by Robert Anthony

#41. They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms. #Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

#42. Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. #Quote by Yukio Mishima

#44. Friend, I am sober today. Thank God Almighty, I'm sober today. I'm here, friend. Yesterday my son turned ten, which means that I haven't had a drink for ten years and eight months. Lots of beautiful and horrible things have happened to me during the past ten years and eight months, and I have handled my business day in and day out without booze. GOD, I ROCK. #Quote by Glennon Doyle Melton

#45. Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him. #Quote by Maria Montessori

#46. I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. #Quote by Ezra Miller

#47. Awareness is the stepping stone to truth,
truth is the stepping stone to light,
and light is the stepping stone to God.
Existence is the stepping stone to time,
time is the stepping stone to reality,
and reality is the stepping stone to experience.
Virtue is the stepping stone to love,
love is the stepping stone to enlightenment,
and enlightenment is the stepping stone to freedom.
Valor is the stepping stone to hope,
hope is the stepping stone to faith,
and enlightenment is the stepping stone to miracles.
Compassion is the stepping stone to understanding,
understanding is the stepping stone to peace,
and peace is the stepping stone to humanity.
Humility is the stepping stone to patience,
patience is the stepping stone to discipline,
and discipline is the stepping stone to character.
Contentment is the stepping stone to fulfillment,
fulfillment is the stepping stone to happiness,
and happiness is the stepping stone to laughter. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#48. When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners? #Quote by Elif Batuman