Best Living Beings Quotes
114 Living Beings quotes by 72 unique authors
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The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to…
— Chanakya
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All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To…
— Unknown Author
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Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
— Vaclav Havel
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Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that…
— Noah Levine
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If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not…
— Nichiren
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My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their…
— Blaize Clement
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According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may…
— Walpola Rahula
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Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
— Unknown Author
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Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our…
— Will Tuttle
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To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture,…
— Unknown Author
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You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I…
— Morarji Desai
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of…
— Jacques Monod
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Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free…
— Unknown Author
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the…
— Nhat Hanh
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In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.
— Nhat Hanh
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And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.
— Gautama Buddha
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A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
— Derrick Jensen
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Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
— Albert Schweitzer
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We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one,…
— Philip Wollen
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In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge…
— Hannah
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The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as…
— Tara Brach
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The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to…
— Dalai Lama
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