Sheikh Salman Al-Oadah Quotes

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.