Dalai Lama Quotes About Worry

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Fear, Real, Fall

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

• Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

• If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Worry, Needs

• If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry, Needs, Problem

• If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

• If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry, Waste, Wasting Time

• If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Worry, Use

• If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry, Needs, Use

• If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

  Dalai Lama

  Worry, Situation, Can Do Something

• Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Worry, Alcohol

• As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Buddhist, Reality

• When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

  Dalai Lama

  Stress, Worry, Looks

• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Spiritual, Mean

• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Hands, Worry

• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry Less, Concern For Others, Genuine Happiness

• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Irritation, Worry, Mind

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