Dalai Lama Quotes

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

No one person is an island.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

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

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

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

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.