Quotes from Dalai Lama

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Happiness is the highest form of health.