Nelson Mandela Quotes

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Neither the crushing powers of the centralized State nor the teachings of mutual hatred ... could weed out the feeling of human solidarity, deeply lodged in men's understanding and heart, because it has been nurtured by all our preceding evolution.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.

Women care about their friends.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

I actually really love people.