- By Priyanka Munshi
- Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:20 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Dalai Lama was one of the highest spiritual leaders and the head of Tibetan Buddhism. If you're dealing with many issues in your professional and personal life, reading some of his deep and inspirational quotes is a powerful and wonderful way to shift your mindset toward positivity. These positive words provide valuable insights, especially on how to cultivate inner peace, compassion, joy and happiness. You will begin to view every challenge in your life as an opportunity and accept it with positivity.
Moreover, by embracing Dalai Lama's teachings, you can learn how to let go of stress, attachment, resentment and doubt. These negative emotions can be naturally replaced with deep understanding, gratitude, love and hope. Dalai Lama’s wisdom encourages everyone to see the world through the lens of kindness, optimism and peaceful living. Here, we have curated some of his wise words that you should read regularly. They serve as a daily reminder to stay grounded in positivity throughout your life.
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Dalai Lama's Inspirational Quotes To Overcome Negativity
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant of an impression by remaining silent.”
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“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
“Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations, you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.”
“When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it also helps us to develop inner happiness and peace.”
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“Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or non-believing, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.”
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“As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings.”
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
“Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.”
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is, therefore, part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier than we found it.”
“Happiness is not something readymade, it comes from your own actions.”
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“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want to suffer. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”