Dalai Lama Quotes

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.