Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

— Dalai Lama XIV

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I do not judge the universe.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

— Dalai Lama XIV

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them – for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

— Dalai Lama XIV

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption – but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance.

— Dalai Lama XIV

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

— Dalai Lama XIV

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

— Dalai Lama XIV

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we’re connected to.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The foundation of the Buddha’s teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Be gentle with the earth.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Privacy Policy   9.80ms  0.72MB