Dalai Lama Quotes on Happiness

16 quotes by Dalai Lama on the subject of happiness, collected from across the QuotePlace library. If you came looking for Dalai Lama's thinking on happiness specifically, rather than everything Dalai Lama ever said, this is the page. About the author: Dalai Lama (born 1935) — Spiritual leader.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. — Dalai Lama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. — Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer. — Dalai Lama
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. — Dalai Lama
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
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Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
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A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. — Dalai Lama
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
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The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. — Dalai Lama
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or a hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. — Dalai Lama
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or a hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives.
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