Nelson Mandela Quotes

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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

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

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

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.

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

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.