Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

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.

The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

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

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.