Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

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

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

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.

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

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.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

Each the others world entire.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.