Dalai Lama Quotes

Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. We live in hope, which means looking forward to something good. And there are increasing scientific findings that both our physical and mental well-being depend on our peace of mind.

For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

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 humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power