Top 500 Dalai Lama XIV Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.”

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402. “The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.”

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403. “All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.”

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404. “If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.”

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405. “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.”

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406. “It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”

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407. “All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.”

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408. “The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.”

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409. “If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.”

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410. “All beings come from a mother’s womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.”

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411. “Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That’s the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.”

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412. “I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.”

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413. “Attention-yes! That’s present! And present, you see, makes past and future.”

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

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415. “Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.”

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416. “Passion is what gives sense to our life.”

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417. “Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.”

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418. “Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today.”

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419. “Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.”

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420. “Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.”

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421. “Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.”

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422. “We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.”

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423. “If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.”

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424. “What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.”

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425. “We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.”

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426. “If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.”

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427. “I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.”

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428. “We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.”

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429. “From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”

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430. “Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”

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431. “I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.”

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432. “Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature’s resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth’s living things.”

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433. “Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.”

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434. “Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”

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435. “All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.”

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436. “Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.”

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437. “A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness.”

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438. “To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.”

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439. “Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.”

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440. “The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.”

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441. “It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”

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442. “Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.”

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443. “Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.”

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444. “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.”

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445. “Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana – genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.”

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446. “If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.”

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447. “So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously.”

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448. “We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.”

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449. “To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.”

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450. “A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”

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