Jean Vanier Quotes

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Being a mum changed me for the better.

Meditation changes your character.

No doubt it is also necessary to improve the classes who now oppress you, but you will never succeed in doing this unless you begin by improving yourselves.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.