Ralph Waite Quotes

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

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

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

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.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

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

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.