All Living Quotes

#1. My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

David LaChapelle

#2. Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

Scott Cunningham

#3. Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

Robert Fulghum

#4. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Virchand Gandhi

#5. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#6. It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Faina Ranevskaya

#7. DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

Richard J. Roberts

#8. We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.

Marilyn Johnson

#9. Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Chanakya

#10. All things grow, flourish, die, and re-grow. Life and death are continuous and fluid. Like the Sun and the Moon which die and are reborn, so do the seasons and all living things.

Brandi L. Bates

#11. Strings that connect us to this world, to nature, to me, become apparent. We're all living and breathing. We're all terribly mighty things.

Krista Ritchie

#12. Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.

Sarah Schulman

#13. If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.

Zicheng Hong

#14. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#15. All living things have an obligation to live as best they can, no matter what pain comes to them.

Mette Ivie Harrison

#16. Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

Brian Blessed

#17. Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

Hsuan Hua

#18. A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down

Gautama Buddha

#19. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

#20. A belief in a policy of kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.

Dalai Lama XIV

#21. We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

George Lucas

#22. Like all living things, you were created for unlimited growth and possibilities. Keep growing. Keep changing. Be everything you were meant to be.

Eleanor Brownn

#23. I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Wayne Dyer

#24. God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#25. We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Eric Jerome Dickey

#26. As the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

Amy Carmichael

#27. I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

Klaus Nomi

#28. He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Gautama Buddha

#29. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

Yann Martel

#30. Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.

Cesar Chavez

#31. God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

Thomas Keating

#32. All living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Orson Scott Card

#33. Death
some form of termination
is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#34. We are all living in some sort of a hell, Elena, all of us, but we don't make someone pay the price for our deeds, do you know why? because everyone of us chooses his own hell, the one that makes him most comfortable.

Juan Jose Millas

#35. As you listen to the murmur of the rain, remember that it is the touch of God. And that just as it unites heaven and earth and nourishes all living things, it can also reunite your worldly spirit with your heart, nourishing the love that you thought you'd lost.

Wayne Lincourt

#36. Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

Rudyard Kipling

#37. We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

#38. Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things.

Will Durant

#39. But all organic matter must have cell structure," Sara said. "Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal.

Dean Koontz

#40. Police are people too, and deserve the same respect due all living things. The point is not that they deserve to suffer or that we should bring them to justice. The point is that, in purely pragmatic terms, they must not be allowed to brutalize people or impose an unjust social order.

Anonymous

#41. The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

Rosa Bonheur

#42. People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Helen McCrory

#43. 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 us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.

Radhanath Swami

#44. All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Lynn Margulis

#45. Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Aldous Huxley

#46. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

Ka Chinery

#47. All living relationships are in process of
change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no single
fixed form to express such a changing relationship.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#48. When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Gautama Buddha

#49. If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together, you can feel everything growing. We're all living together, even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.

Hue

#50. The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

#51. Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#52. Today ... we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Albert Schweitzer

#53. Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries
all living sentient creatures.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#54. All of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

Jamie Foxx

#55. Peter couldn't help remembering the stirring moment when he and Kate had sung back into life the chorus of health and well-being in Andrew's body; the base chord that hummed in all living beings, distinct to each person but closely linked together.

Alan McCluskey

#56. That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

Hermann Hesse

#57. Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Jeanette Winterson

#58. Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

Willem Dafoe

#59. Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.

Chris Christie

#60. Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.

Jonas Carpignano

#61. There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained

Wallace D. Wattles

#62. The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.

Steven Magee

#63. Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Dalai Lama

#64. The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#65. It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.

John Lennon

#66. Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Gautama Buddha

#67. At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Richard Dawkins

#68. When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.

Wayne Dyer

#69. I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.

Rain Phoenix

#70. Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

Mahavira

#71. I saw that all living things were doomed, to bliss: that's not living; it's just a way to waste what we have, a drain.

Arthur Rimbaud

#72. God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#73. Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Albert Einstein

#74. I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Marc Maron

#75. All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

Gautama Buddha

#76. Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

George Harrison

#77. It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Henry Grunwald

#78. The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men.

Arthur C. Clarke

#79. Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Steve Simmons

#80. Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

S. Jay Olshansky

#81. Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Robyn Schneider

#82. Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Leo Tolstoy

#83. I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.

Richard Branson

#84. We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

Kelsang Gyatso

#85. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#86. All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

T.A. Barron

#87. Walking side by side won't make the journey the same for all, living under the same roof won't make all of them family, and we can be surrounded by millions of people but still be alone."

My No.7th book is coming....!

Tim I. Gurung

#88. Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Howard Thurman

#89. All living things including man are interdependence upon each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. The truth is that we're all living stories.

Jamie Tworkowski

#91. Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

#92. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.

Kiese Laymon

#93. So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

Surya Das

#94. To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.

Radhanath Swami

#95. Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#96. Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#97. Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

Jack Kerouac

#98. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

Gautama Buddha

#99. It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

John Krasinski

#100. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein