Dalai Lama

is much bigger than happiness. While happiness is often seen as being dependent on external circumstances, joy is not.”

Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice.

Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take away this freedom to choose our response

Discovering more joy does not,

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.”