Dalai Lama Quotes

I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

... we always love best the people who need us.

I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.

More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Let me think about the people I care about.

When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.