Quotes from Dalai Lama

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.