Paul Bloom Quotes

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.