"To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged."
Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom” (via bookitreader)
"If the first part of your life was lived to the full, remember that at the time you contributed to society and your work was useful and carried out with sincere intentions. So now you have nothing to regret."
Dalai Lama   Meditations on Growing Old (via ciananikon)

alex-webb:

‘Notice your attachments to food, clothes, and shelter and adapt monastic practices of contentment to a layperson’s life. Be satisfied with adequate food, clothing and shelter. Use the additional free time for meditation so that you can overcome more problems.’

- Dalai Lama

via alex-webb

open-eyes-dreamer:

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. 

(Source: au--courant)

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
Tao Te Ching, chapter 33 by Lao Tze (via hyorinmaru)
"Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what’s easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great, And thereby the great is achieved."
Lao Tze (via cucoriedkovavila)
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao-tzu (via reallyphoebe)
"If you want to become full, let yourself be empty."
Lao-tzu (via reallyphoebe)