Quotes About Living Beings

#1. 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 undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.

Will Tuttle

#2. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'

Gautama Buddha

#4. Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one is driven to eat oneself alive?

Michael Greenberg

#5. 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 living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

Malaclypse The Younger

#6. Similarly, the Supreme Lord is the enjoyer and the creator, and we, as subordinate living beings, are meant to cooperate to satisfy Him.

Anonymous

#7. You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Catherine The Great

#8. I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Morarji Desai

#9. Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning ... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Lynn Margulis

#10. 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

#11. 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 of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#12. There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Damon Lindelof

#13. Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#14. If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea.

Allan Kardec

#15. 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 toward self-display which answers the fact of one's own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them.

Hannah

#16. One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.

Shantideva

#17. 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

#18. Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

Erich Fromm

#19. 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 nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#20. All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.

Sharon Gannon

#21. I do not think about converting others to Buddhism or merely furthering the Buddhist cause. Instead, I try to think of how I as a Buddhist can contribute to the happiness of all living beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#22. Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Nhat Hanh

#23. The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

Brad McKinniss

#24. And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#25. Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities... There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other... If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.

Jane Goodall

#26. Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

Ashok K. Banker

#27. If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#28. The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus, zoos, aquariums, and sports.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#29. By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

Dalai Lama

#30. In that regard we are different from our ancestors of a few centuries ago, who approved, carried out, and even savored the infliction of unspeakable agony on other living beings. What were these people feeling? And why don't we feel it today?

Steven Pinker

#31. Living beings have this in common; the breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.

Anonymous

#33. Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#34. Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar
to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.

Giordano Bruno

#35. Light shines universally on all living beings saying the Nenbutsu. Wherever they may be in the world, it welcomes all, turning away none.

Kakunyo

#36. You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robin Williams

#37. Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world, for the sake of all living beings. Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#38. For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Gautama Buddha

#39. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

Aristotle.

#40. May the sound of this bell penetrate deeply into the cosmos. In even the darkest places, may living beings hear it clearly so that understanding comes to their hearts, and without much hardship, they transcend the cycle of birth and death. or:

Thich Nhat Hanh

#41. At a guess I'll guarantee to lead you to thirty or forty alleys and networks of alleys north of Prince Street that aren't suspected by ten living beings outside of the foreigners that swarm them.

H.P. Lovecraft

#42. Yes, karma propels us into all kinds of unexpected situations," His Holiness said. "This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.

David Michie

#43. We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Gautama Buddha

#44. 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, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

Philip Wollen

#45. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#46. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#47. Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.

Radhanath Swami

#48. I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

Amit Ray

#50. The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

Ian Somerhalder

#51. Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

Rabindranath Tagore

#52. You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Robin Williams

#53. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

#54. Here is a beautiful dream: A never-ending journey! The holy purpose of science is to realise this dream for all living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

Atisa

#56. ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home.

Henrik Ibsen

#57. The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

Maimonides

#58. There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Stanley Bing

#59. A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Mahavira

#60. Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.

Je Tsongkhapa

#61. The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#62. Harmony and One-ness with all living beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#63. The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton

#64. Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

#65. Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

Albert Schweitzer

#66. 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

#67. 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 the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

Chanakya

#68. In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs.

Amit Ray

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

Howard Zinn

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

Chanakya

#73. 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 reason.

William Godwin

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. Man becomes a man only when he stops bossing around both his own fellow man and other living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#77. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas A. Edison

#78. A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#79. 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

#80. 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 living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

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

Thomas Keating

#82. There are two kinds of paradises in our universe: The ones which have been created by the evolutionary processes and the ones which have been created by the living beings! There exists no other paradise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#83. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

George Amos Dorsey

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.

E.M.Foster

#87. Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Karen Horney

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Gautama Buddha

#91. He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Gautama Buddha

#92. 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

#93. The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Morarji Desai

#95. 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

#96. May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

William Huggins

#97. If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

Albert Schweitzer

#98. A true bodhisattva is one who sees no demarcations between organic and non-organic, self and non-self, living beings and non-living beings, bodhisattvas and non-bodhisattvas.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#99. We can break step. Magnificent living beings that we are, we humans are free to unravel our patterns.

Louisa Hall

#100. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Akkineni Nagarjuna