Dalai Lama Quotes

I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

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

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

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

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

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

All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.