Paul Bloom Quotes

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Egolessness is contentment.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we have helped such and such people. It is a foolish thought, and all foolish thoughts bring misery. We think that we have helped some man and expect him to thank us, and because he does not, unhappiness comes to us. Why should we expect anything in return for what we do? Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.