Dalai Lama Quotes

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.