Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that come from [there in the past] 2,000 years. But this doctor is usually so attentional, so kind, and so careful of what you really feel and then [he sees] you as a human being instead of running you through some quick tests. So that itself, the trust and confidence in someone that cares for you is of course so invigorating... that someone cares.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.