"If we have no inner peace, we..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
More by Dalai Lama
“We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”
“Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
More on Inner Peace
More on Happiness
“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!”
“If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.”
“If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.”