Dalai Lama Quotes About Difficulty

• Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Inner Strength, Stronger

• Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Ignorance, Happy Life

• There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

• We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Faces, Size, Difficulty

• Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Inspiration, Feelings

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

• I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Laughter, People

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.23, Harper Collins

• It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

  Dalai Lama

  Loss, Inner Strength, Gains

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.74, Hachette UK

• Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Frustration, Giving

• If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Inner Peace, Mind

• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

• Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Concern For Others, Giving

• The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Real, Compassion

• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Perspective, Faces

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Thinking, Breathing

• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Confusion, May, Kind

• I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Country, Home

• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

• If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Inevitable, Difficulty

• Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

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  Pain, Sky, Hard Life

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

  Dalai Lama

  Way, Problem, Harmony

• Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

• His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Country, Holiness

• Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Effort, Want

  Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

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