Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Country

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the ‘enemies’ who appear from time to time in our lives.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Real

Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Real

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Peace? starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Firsts

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

— Dalai Lama XIV

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