Dalai Lama Quotes from The Art of Happiness

Here below are Dalai Lama Quotes chosen from the book ‘The Art of Happiness’. For writing this book, Howard C Cutler had multiple conversations with HH Dalai Lama. This is a hand book for happiness with many practical hints and suggestions.

Dalai Lama Quotes from the book ‘The Art of Happiness’

Dalai Lama quotes represent not only highest spiritual wisdom but also find an intense practical application. HH Dalai Lama, being himself a down to earth person, provides many useful suggestions to improve our state of mind in the book ‘The art of Happiness’, in his conversations with Howard C Cutler.

Although it is possible to achieve happiness, happiness is not a simple thing. There are many levels. In Buddhism for example, there is a reference to the four factors of fulfillment, or happiness: wealth, wordly satisfaction, spirituality, and enlightenment. Together they embrace the totality of an individual’s quest for happiness.

Every day as soon as you get up, you can develop a sincere positive motivation, thinking, “I will utilize this day in a more positive way. I should not waste this very day.” And then, at night before bed, check what you’ve done, asking yourself, “Did I utilize this day as planned?”

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HH Dalai Lama

In generating compassion, you start by recognizing that you do not want suffering and that you have a right to have happiness. …You then recognize that other people, just like yourself, also do not want to suffer and they have a right to have happiness. So this becomes the basis of your beginning to generate compassion.

Generally speaking, once you’re already in a difficult situation, it isn’t possible to change your attitude simply by adopting a particular thought once or twice. Rather it’s through a process of learning, training, and getting used to new viewpoints that enables you to deal with the difficulty.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness..

Whenever I meet people, I always approach them from the standpoint of the most basic things we have in common. We each have a physical structure, a mind, emotions. We all are born in the same way, and we all die. All of us want happiness and do not want to suffer. Looking at others from this standpoint rather than emphasizing secondary differences such as the fact that I am Tibetan, or a different color, religion, or cultural background, allows me to have a feeling that I’m meeting someone just the same as me.