Le Tien

“The very best is being able to ask yourself, ‘Why do I want to have a house that has seven rooms when there are only two or three of us? Why do I want to have it?”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Discovering more joy does not, I’m sorry to say,” the Archbishop added, as we began our descent, “save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily, too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreak without being broken.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Contemplate that, as long as you are too focused on your self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will experience suffering. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don’t want does not result in happiness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“There is perhaps nothing more joyous than birth, and yet so much of life is spent in sadness, stress, and suffering.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World