Quotes on Happiness

by the Dalai Lama

” Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

– Dalai Lama

” If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

– Dalai Lama

” The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

– Dalai Lama

” I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…”

• Dalai Lama

– Dalai Lama quotes on Compassion

– Dalai Lama quotes on Religion

Books by the Dalai Lama

• Books on the Dalai Lama
• The Art of Happiness – by the Dalai Lama
• Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
• The Dalai Lama Book of Wisdom

External Links

• His Holiness the Dalai Lama- Site of the Tibetan Government in exile
• The Nobelprize.org – biography
• Conversation between Robert Thurman and theDalai Lama
• The Dalai Lama Foundation– an international organisation for ethics and peace