Dalai Lama ~ I laugh often and my laughter is contagious

His Holiness The Dalai Lama: "I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, but I laugh often and my laughter is contagious. Of course problems are there. But thinking only of the negative aspect doesn’t help to find solutions and it destroys peace of mind. This attitude comes to me, from my practice and from Buddhist philosophy, which help me enormously. I love smiles, and my wish is to see more smiles, real smiles, for there are many kinds - sarcastic, artificial, or diplomatic. Some smiles don’t arouse any satisfaction, and some even engender suspicion or fear. We must create the reasons that make an authentic smile appear and make more smiles blossom ✿ "