Yanni Quotes

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

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

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.

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

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.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

I think we are all connected in this world.