You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.