If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.
The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.