Stop fighting with your family members, spouse, or friends. Start appreciating. Enjoy each other. Stop looking at the other’s faults. Start to appreciate each other’s qualities. Life is short. Even if you live one hundred years, how long will you live with all your faculties intact? The period we have to appreciate each other is quite limited. ~ Gelek Rimpoche
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others, and it is based on love and affection. ~ His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama
Lovingkindness—maitri—toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. ~ Pema Chodron
“So you see, all the qualities of enlightenment are right here with us. We don’t need to look anywhere outside of the present moment.”
~ Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, a scholar and true yogi of the Great Perfection as told to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion,
defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities,
then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness. ~ His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
A Buddhist's Journey 