When you are young, healthy, and strong, you sometimes can get the feeling that you are totally independent and do not need anyone else. But this is an illusion. Even at that prime age of your life, simply because you are a human being, you need friends, don’t you?

14th Dalai Lama

from the book The Compassionate Life

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Further quotes from the book The Compassionate Life:

• Widening our mind
• Compassion without attachment
• True compassion is a firm commitment founded on reason
• Improvement of our entire human community