“I adore the way nature reflects all of the sentient beings in our world.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There is no place which is not imbued with the Way. It pervades all things and all sentient beings.” — Ta-Mo Copy Share Image
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead.… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
