Quotes about Coexistence

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.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

When thou art offended with any man's shameless conduct, immediately ask thyself, Is it possible then that such men should not be in the world? It is not possible. Do not then require what is impossible. ... For at the same time that thou dost remind thyself that it is impossible that such kind of men should not exist, thou wilt become more kindly disposed towards every one individually.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Aching for one thing and enjoying something else aren't mutually exclusive.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.