Best Living Beings Sayings
114 Living Beings quotes by 72 unique authors
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Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three…
— Natalie Portman
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All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful…
— Dalai Lama
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Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of…
— Radhanath Swami
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God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
— Thomas Keating
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Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
— Chanakya
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A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by…
— Gautama Buddha
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.
— Gautama Buddha
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See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child
— Atisa
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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
— Gautama Buddha
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do…
— Gautama Buddha
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Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain…
— Philip Kapleau
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Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately…
— Pliny the Elder
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Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of…
— William Godwin
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least…
— Lynn Margulis
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The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in…
— Howard Zinn
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Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other…
— Malaclypse the Younger
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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the…
— Manly Hall
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By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.
— Dalai Lama
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the…
— Aristotle
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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