A. R. Rahman Quotes

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

I'm real excited to turn my obsessive-type focus towards making the world a happier place.

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

The values of life are most important.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

You really can change the world if you care enough.