Depression and the Dalai Lama

So...I'm not in a very happy mood right now. But I'm feeling a lot better then I was an hour ago. I don't know why I get like this, maybe its the whole teenage thing. Well I'm sure it is, but it royally sucks...Does it ever go away????? Anywhoo...I was sitting in my basement/library listening to the radio when I found a book called The Art of Happiness by his holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C Cutler. It sounded like something i should be reading at that moment and I was bored and self pitying so I began to read it. I am only on the middle of the 2nd chapter but man...I think I'm in love with the Dalai Lama. Not that kind of Love...But he just seems like such a smart, happy guy. He knows the secret and he's sharing! I'm a geek I know. Now I'm here writing and I went and found some quotes from the Dalai Lama on www.brainyquotes.com and here they are. They're really good :D

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
• Sleep is the best meditation.
• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
• 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.
• Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
• Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.