Dalai Lama Quotes

I'm so lucky that I've always been able to laugh about things, even at my very lowest times.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.

When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

If I can laugh, I can live.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.