Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

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.

Dalai Lama

Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

Dalai Lama

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.

Dalai Lama

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

Dalai Lama

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Dalai Lama

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

Dalai Lama

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Dalai Lama

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Dalai Lama

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

Dalai Lama

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

Dick Gregory

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

David O. McKay

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

Claude M. Bristol

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Dan Savage

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Dan Quayle

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.

Cynthia Ozick

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

Cyril Connolly

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Cyril Connolly

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Dan Millman

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Dan Millman

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Corrie Ten Boom

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.