Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

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

No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality