Ram Dass Quotes

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

I look after people.

If thou wouldst help others, deal with them as though they were what they should be

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has many people behind him making him unhappy. If an understanding of compassion is there, then you will change all the ways that you cause unhappiness in others. And if you can bring happiness to someone's life, you will find a way to do it.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

All my adult life people have been helping me.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

Everyone loves to be loved.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.