Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

— Dalai Lama XIV

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

— Dalai Lama XIV

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Experience Short Inspirational Short Positive Life Is Short

Spend some time alone every day.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Focus On Yourself Self-Care Peace of Mind Buddhist

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness Care Wellness Wednesday Buddhist

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

— Dalai Lama XIV

One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

— Dalai Lama XIV

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness Short Inspiring Values Caring

One has to try to develop one’s inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one’s mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don’t have to pay income tax on!

— Dalai Lama XIV

I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.

— Dalai Lama XIV

According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Failure Learning Loss Buddhist

Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

— Dalai Lama XIV

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

— Dalai Lama XIV

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