Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

— Dalai Lama XIV

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

— Dalai Lama XIV

According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

— Dalai Lama XIV

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

— Dalai Lama XIV

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute...

— Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

— Dalai Lama XIV

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

— Dalai Lama XIV

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

— Dalai Lama XIV
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